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Barbary Shore

A Novel

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Barbary Shore

By: Norman Mailer
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
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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.

©1951, 1979 Norman Mailer. (P)2016 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.
Classics Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Political Psychological Fiction Socialism Capitalism
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