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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 ski

Barbary Shore

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    A Paperback / softback by Norman Mailer

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      Publisher Ballantine Books Inc.
      Published 16 June 2015
      ISBN-13 9780812986143
      978-0812986143
      ISBN-10 0812986148

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 ski

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