The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Castle in the Forest, an American Dream, the Naked and the Dead, the Executioner’s Song, Harlot’s Ghost, Why Are We in Vietnam?, Barbary Shore, Ancient Evenings, the Deer Park. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Castle in the Forest is the last novel by writer Norman Mailer, published in the year of his death, 2007. It is the story of Adolf Hitler’s childhood as seen through the eyes of Dieter, a demon sent to put him on his destructive path. The novel explores the idea that Hitler had no Jewish heritage but was the product of incest. It forms a thematic contrast with the writer’s immediately previous novel The Gospel According to the Son (1999), which deals with the early life of Jesus. It received a good deal of praise, such as a glowing review from Lee Siegel of The New York Times Book Review, and was the New York Times Bestseller for 2007. The novel is divided into 14 books, organized initially into a summary of the findings of the SS officer tasked with investigating Hitler’s ancestry, and developing into a chart of Hitler’s young life. It begins with a portrait of his father and mother, followed by a book on the narrator, and then follows Hitler’s life before ending with an epilogue entitled the Castle in the Forest where the narrator is interviewed by a US Army psychiatrist at the end of the war. The 14 books are as follows: The Castle in the Forest tells the story of the young life of Adolf Hitler, his origins and his immediate family tree, through the eyes of what at first is portrayed as a young SS officer researching Hitler’s genealogy at the behest of Heinrich Himmler, who opens the novel speaking to SS officers about the importance of strong traits that result through incest. The SS Officer, who i…More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=861677

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