EBOOK Barbary Shore
Opis
A Novel
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
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