An American Dream
$22.88
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
19 November 2018
Summary
One of the best American novels ever written- a rolicking, controversial New York fable.
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. One part Nietzsche, one part de Sade, and one part Charlie Parker, An American Dream gr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241340516 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241340519 |
| Author: | Norman Mailer |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 19 November 2018 |
| Weight: | 194g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was one of the great post-War American writers, both as a novelist and as one of the key inventors of the New Journalism. His books include the novels The Naked and the Dead, The Deer Park, Why Are We in Vietnam?, The Executioner’s Song and Harlot’s Ghost and the non-fiction works The Armies of the Night, A Fire on the Moon (published in the USA as Of a Fire on the Moon) and The Fight. He won the National Book Award and twice won the Pulitzer Prize.
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