Barbary Shore

By Norman Mailer

Book Overview

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 Mailer loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation." - The New York Times "A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent." - The New Yorker "Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure." - The Washington Post "A devastatingly alive and original creative mind." - Life "Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance." - The New York Review of Books "The largest mind and imagination in modern American literature . . . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book." - Chicago Tribune "Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream." - The Cincinnati Post

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812986148
• ISBN13: 9780812986143
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.0"