Naked and the Dead, The

American  

noun

1. a novel (1948) by Norman Mailer.

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Example Sentences

According to NPD BookScan, which tracks around 85% of the print market, combined sales for four of Mailer’s best known books — “The Armies of the Night,” “The Naked and the Dead,” “The Executioner’s Song” and “The Fight” — were under 4,000 copies in 2021.

From Seattle Times

He championed the neglected 19th-century writer George Gissing, talked up James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” embraced Norman Mailer’s “Naked and the Dead” the instant it was published, and greatly admired Joseph Conrad, who, as “a transplanted Pole,” he wrote, had a “grown-upness and political understanding which would have been almost impossible to a native English writer at that time.”

From New York Times

It first appears in literature—it appeared once or twice before then—in Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, the 1948 war novel which I think was written in '45, to describe a character named Lt.

From Slate