Norman Mailer's "Harlot's Ghost"

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"Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Norman Mailer's bestseller, Harlot's Ghost, opens with the narrator, Harry Hubbard, describing his surroundings in Maine. Above the first chapter are the words Omega 1, which refer to a secret autobiographical manuscript that Harry had begun years before (9). When the book begins, Harry is living with his wife, Kittredge, at a place they call the Keep (5). The Keep once belonged to Harry's father, Cal Hubbard, who sold it to his second cousin, Rodman Knowles Gardiner (7). Ironically, Rodman Gardiner is Kittredge's father, and Kittredge gained possession of the Keep on her first marriage (7).

The novel begins innocently enough, with Harry describing his wife's eyes as having "the blue of the sea" and saying that her white skin becomes "luminous in any pale meadow" (5). ... "

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