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An American Dream is a 1965 novel by American author Norman Mailer.It was published by Dial Press.Mailer wrote it in serialized form for Esquire, consciously attempting to resurrect the methodology used by Charles Dickens and other earlier novelists, with Mailer writing each chapter against monthly deadlines.
- Norman Mailer
- 1965
Mailer's meditation on violence and evil will not be everyone's idea of a good novel to read on the beach, but An American Dream is a fully realized male fantasy wherein one set-upon, White, alcoholic , protagonist berserks himself into sequential delirium fueled rages to rid himself of the crushing banality of the culture that he feels is ...
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Feb 17, 2015 · 46 offers from $9.79. Next page. Editorial Reviews. Review. Praise for An American Dream “Perhaps the only serious New York novel since The Great Gatsby.”—Joan Didion, National Review “A devil’s encyclopedia of our secret visions and desires . . . the expression of a devastatingly alive and original creative mind.”.
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An American Dream. An American Dream is a novel by American author Norman Mailer, published in 1965. It was first published in serialised form in Esquire, with Mailer writing each chapter to the deadlines set by the magazine. The novel follows Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero, former congressman, and television star. One night, Rojack hears ...
May 4, 1999 · For now, "Dream" deserves a "5 star” rating if some hypothetical average novels is one's benchmark, a mere "3 star" one if Mailer's own standard of literary greatness is to set the norm. -- all the more so in light of the Panglosian appraisals offered by some fellow reader reviewers. On balance. I choose a "4 star" rating
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Sep 28, 2011 · The public death of Walter Mitty, alias Norman Mailer, (alias, wishfully speaking anyway, Jack Kennedy), represented by the concoction, recently serialized in Esquire, now hard-covered, bearing the title, An American Dream, bearing also the same relationship to An American Tragedy as spitballs might be said to bear to the atom bomb, is herewith reviewed. In the colloquial sense, of course, let ...
An American Dream is centered on the life of the protagonist and narrator, Stephen Rojack, who is an ex-soldier that fought during the World War II, a university professor in New York, and a television show host. He is also a former congressman and graduated from Harvard. Stephen dates Deborah Kelly, who is a wealthy heiress, and he realizes ...
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