An edition of An American Dream (1965)

An American dream

1st Vintage International ed.
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An edition of An American Dream (1965)

An American dream

1st Vintage International ed.
  • 4.0 (2 ratings) ·
  • 13 Want to read
  • 3 Currently reading
  • 3 Have read

Stephen Rojack is a decorated war hero, a former Congressman, and a certified public intellectual with his own television show. He is also married to the very rich, very beautiful, and utterly amoral Deborah Caughlin Kelly. But one night, in the prime of his existence, he hears the moon talking to him on the terrace of a fashionable New York high-rise, and it is urging him to kill himself. It is almost as a defense against that infinitely seductive voice that Rojack murders his wife.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. As Rojack 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. Sensual, horrifying, and informed by a vision that is one part Nietzsche, one part de Sade, and one part Charlie Parker, An American Dream grabs the reader by the throat and refuses to let go.

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Publisher
Vintage Books
Language
English
Pages
270

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Cover of: An American dream
An American dream
1999, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage International ed.
Cover of: An American dream
An American dream
1992, Paladin
in English
Cover of: An American dream
An American dream
1987, Holt
in English - 1st Owl book ed.
Cover of: An American dream
An American dream
1972, Panther
in English
Cover of: An American dream.
An American dream.
1965, Dial Press
in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3525.A4152 A78 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
270 p. ;
Number of pages
270

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL661249M
Internet Archive
americandream0000mail_m6n7
ISBN 10
0375700706
LCCN
97006684
OCLC/WorldCat
36510954
Library Thing
45479
Goodreads
131793

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