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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.
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Feb 17, 2015 · by Norman Mailer (Author) 3.9 166 ratings. See all formats and editions. In this wild battering ram of a novel, which was originally published to vast controversy in 1965, Norman Mailer creates a character who might be a fictional precursor of the philosopher-killer he would later profile in The Executioner’s Song.
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3,842 ratings305 reviews. In this wild battering ram of a novel, which was originally published to vast controversy in 1965, Norman Mailer creates a character who might be a fictional precursor of the philosopher-killer he would later profile in The Executioner’s Song.
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May 4, 1999 · In “An American Dream,” protagonist Rojack responds to his spousal and class oppression by joyously murdering his wife Deborah and sodomizing her maid in celebration of the slaying.
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- Norman Mailer
Aug 23, 2016 · 3.9 166 ratings. See all formats and editions. In this wild battering ram of a novel, which was originally published to vast controversy in 1965, Norman Mailer creates a character who might be a fictional precursor of the philosopher-killer he would later profile in The Executioner’s Song.
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- Norman Mailer
As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise, runs amok through the city in which he was once a privileged citizen, Mailer peels away the layers of our social norms to reveal a world of pure appetite and relentless cruelty.
Feb 17, 2015 · An American Dream: A Novel. Norman Mailer. Random House Publishing Group, Feb 17, 2015 - Fiction - 288 pages. In this wild battering ram of a novel, which was originally published to vast...
