Ancient Evenings

Ancient Evenings

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name = Ancient Evenings
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author = Norman Mailer
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Historical novel
publisher = Little, Brown & Company
release_date = 1983
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media_type = Print (Hardback
pages = 709 pp
isbn = ISBN 0316544108
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"Ancient Evenings" is a novel by Norman Mailer. It deals, with the lives of two protagonists, one young, one old, in a very alien ancient Egypt marked by journeys by the dead, reincarnation, and violent and hyper-sexual gods and mortals in a complex combination of historical fiction, allegory, poetic flight, confession and spiritual meditation.

The novel has had an extremely mixed criticial reception marked by a preponderance of negative reviews, some scathing [e.g., those by Benjamin DeMott, Joseph Epstein, some very favorable [e.g., those by Richard Poirier, Christopher Ricks] .

Derided by many, it is included in the canonical listing of Harold Bloom in "The Western Canon" and books celebrated in "" by Anthony Burgess.


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