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Title	:	An American Dream
Author	:	Norman Mailer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	1999 by Vintage (first published 1965)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literature. Classics. Novels. American. 20th Century. Mystery. Crime

An American Dream

Norman Mailer

Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

Rating: 3.46 | 3226 Users | 236 Reviews

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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 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.

Praise for An American Dream

“Perhaps the only serious New York novel since The Great Gatsby.”—Joan Didion, National Review

“A devil’s encyclopedia of our secret visions and desires . . . the expression of a devastatingly alive and original creative mind.”—Life

“A work of fierce concentration . . . perfectly, and often brilliantly, realistic [with] a pattern of remarkable imaginative coherence and intensity.”—Harper’s

“At once violent, educated, and cool . . . This is our history as Hawthorne might have written it.”—Commentary

Praise for Norman Mailer

“[Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation.”—The New York Times

“A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent.”—The New Yorker

“Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure.”—The Washington Post

“A devastatingly alive and original creative mind.”—Life

“Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance.”—The New York Review of Books

“The largest mind and imagination [in modern] American literature . . . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book.”—Chicago Tribune

“Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream.”—The Cincinnati Post (less)

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Original Title:	An American Dream
ISBN:	0375700706 (ISBN13: 9780375700705)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.46 From 3226 Users | 236 Reviews

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I'm really sorry to say that I did not like this book at all. I've had it on my shelf for four years, and I was really excited to finally read a full-length work by the late, great Norman Mailer. To cushion the review I'm about to give, let's just put some things into perspective (facts I myself only looked up after reading the book and seriously disliking it): this particular novel, his fourth, was actually initiated as a series of installments in Esquire magazine. Now that I know this, I'm

Norman Mailer wrote a lot of bad books including this one in which he is at his self-centred and misogynist worst. The Naked and the Dead is a good enough book but there is little to be gained from going too far into the Mailer catalogue.

Not sure how or what to review in this book. Except that the writing style just kept me going to the end. The story is manic. The hero does everything in a span of 24 hours - kills his wife ( from who he is separated) makes out with his maid. Finds a girlfriend in a bar and makes out with her ( and also gives her a child ... not sure how one can know just after the event ). Tricks the police and gets away from suspicion of killing his wife. And so on. Not likely to be believable at all. But this

If you can stomach the brutal violence and the hysterical anti-woman diatribes, Mailer actually makes some pretty good points about racial, sexual, and cultural hypocrisy in America. He knows how to write tough cops and the sordid underbelly of big city America. And he writes soaring prose, which represents an enormous effort of will.Oh, and not that it makes the book any better, but if you're a fan of MAD MEN, it's easy to picture Jon Hamm as Rojack, January Jones as Deborah, and Christina

A mind-numbingly idiotic book that totes its title without the slightest hint of irony, Norman Mailer's An American Dream asks the most pertinent question of our times (i.e. the United States circa the early 1960's): What, oh what, is the tough, masculine white man to do in a world full of bitches and black men who may be more virile than he is? Really groundbreaking work here, Norm. This novel follows the adventures of a renowned TV personality who, having had a little too much to drink at a

Mailer is a transcendent writer, and challenged societal conventions in his day. While this book is beautifully written, (a PTSD flashback of war here is movingly and horrifyingly scripted), it's a prime example of a writer resting on his laurels. Violent, profane and banal, this is quite simply shock literature that was made a classic because of the sheer fact it challenged the limits of free speech in its day. There's not much here of substance; Mailer is a great writer - this is a terrible

Mailer's meditation on violence and evil will not be everyone's idea of a good novel to read on the beach, but An American Dream is a fully realized male fantasy wherein one set-upon, White, alcoholic , protagonist berserks himself into sequential delirium fueled rages to rid himself of the crushing banality of the culture that he feels is killing him by the inch. To do this, he commits a series of violent and insane acts, in an alcoholic haze; challenges sent him by the moon (really) whose