| Title | : | Barbary Shore: A Novel (Unabridged) |
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| Author | : | Norman Mailer |
| Release | : | 2024-11-08 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Classics |
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| 1 | Barbary Shore: A Novel (Unabridged) | Norman Mailer |
| 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. 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 Kafkaesque unease with Orwellian paranoia, Barbary Shore plays havoc with our certainties and delivers its effects with a force that is pure Mailer. |
