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Barbary Shore is Norman Mailer's second published novel, written after Mailer's great success with his 1948 debut The Naked and the Dead. It concerns a protagonist who rents a room in a Brooklyn boarding house with the intention of writing a novel.
Sep 17, 2013 · Barbary Shore: A Novel Kindle Edition. by Norman Mailer (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 3.6 28 ratings. See all formats and editions. Published at the height of the McCarthy era, Norman Mailer’s audacious novel of socialismis at once an elegy and an indictment, a sinuous moral thriller and an intellectual slugfest.
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Barbary Shore is a novel written by two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize (the only person to do so for both fiction and nonfiction), a leading public intellectual, and one of the most influential writers of the second half of the twentieth century, Norman Mailer.
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Sep 30, 1997 · But Lovett's housemates have secrets of their own. As these mysterious figures vie for Lovett's allegiance, Barbary Shore plays havoc with our certainties, combining Kafkaesque unease with Orwellian paranoia and delivering its effects with a power that Mailer has made all his own.
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About Barbary Shore. 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.
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Jun 16, 2015 · As these mysterious figures vie for Lovett's allegiance, Barbary Shore plays havoc with our certainties, combining Kafkaesque unease with Orwellian paranoia and delivering its...
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...
