An American Dream

Norman Mailer

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Penguin
19 November 2018

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

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 grabs the reader by the throat and refuses to let go.

By: Norman Mailer
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 195mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 192g
ISBN: 9780241340516
ISBN 10: 0241340519
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 19 November 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.