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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 countryand what you might call the psychic territorythat 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
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