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Published at the height of the McCarthy era, Norman Mailer’s audacious novel of socialism is at once an elegy and an indictment, a sinuous moral thriller and an intellectual slugfest. Wounded during World War II, Mike Lovett is an amnesiac, and much of his past is a secret to himself. But when Lovett rents a room in Brooklyn, he finds that his housemates have secrets of their own: One betrays a husband no one ever sees; another may have been a Communist executioner. Combining Kafkaesque unease with Orwellian paranoia, Barbary Shore plays havoc with our certainties and delivers its effects with a force that is pure Mailer. Praise for Barbary Shore “A work of remarkable power, of amazing penetration, both into people and the determining forces of American life.” — The Atlantic Monthly “Vibrant with life, abundant with real people . . . [Mailer has] a scintillating skill in observation, a mature sense of meaning.” — The Philadelphia Inquirer “This book is nothing short of amazing.” — Newsweek “ Barbary Shore [is] about the kind of country—and what you might call the psychic territory—that American war heroes were returning to.” — The Guardian Praise for Norman Mailer “[Norman Ma

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Author

Norman Mailer

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781299823297

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, American Fiction