Norman Mailer: The Naked and the Dead 1948, Rinhart, NY Early ptg. in the publication year. Modern Classic Fiction If your mind is an automobile then make it a four-wheel drive and buckle up for a long road trip up dangerous crevasses and into the lives of an Army unit invading an island in the Pacific. The story moves from beach landing to mopping up, months later. Every character is developed in such detail that you wonder how one man could pull off so many individual psychologies so well. Just like the tortuous slog up the mountain by the recon squad, at times the book feels like a mountain whose peak seems unattainable. Reading page after page of the utter exhaustion felt by the squad members as they haul an injured fellow soldier down a mountain and though a jungle has the effect of you being there with them;, salt streaks on the stiff utilities, jungle sun beating down on your neck, iron and bile in your throat. So yes, sometimes it's tortuous, but by the time the final attack starts and the recon patrol is clinging to the edge of a mountain for their lives, it's definitely worth it.

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