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Barbary Shore. Barbary Shore is Norman Mailer 's second published novel, written after Mailer's great success with his 1948 debut The Naked and the Dead. It concerns a protagonist who rents a room in a Brooklyn boarding house with the intention of writing a novel.
- United States
- Norman Mailer
- 1951
- Rinehart & Company
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Barbary Shore. Norman Mailer. 2.88. 557 ratings64 reviews. Mike Lovett rents a room in a Brooklyn boarding house with the intention of writing a novel. Wounded during World War II, Lovett is an amnesiac, and much of his past is a secret to himself. But Lovett's housemates have secrets of their own.
Hollingsworth in Barbary Shore, like Cummings in The Naked and the Dead, is a tempter: over-bearing, devious, advocating to the hero a political philosophy that Mailer abhors, just as Hawthorne is sus picious of his Hollingsworth's social idealism.2 The main opponent of the Hollingsworth in Barbary Shore, Lovett, is a sensitive young
17 set 2013 · by Norman Mailer (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 3.6 28 ratings. See all formats and editions. Published at the height of the McCarthy era, Norman Mailer’s audacious novel of socialismis at once an elegy and an indictment, a sinuous moral thriller and an intellectual slugfest.
- Norman Mailer
Combining Kafkaesque unease with Orwellian paranoia, Barbary Shore plays havoc with our certainties and delivers its effects with a force that is pure Mailer. Praise for Barbary Shore “A work of remarkable power, of amazing penetration, both into people and the determining forces of American life.”—The Atlantic Monthly
16 giu 2015 · Barbary Shore. Norman Mailer. Penguin Group USA, Incorporated, 1967 - Fiction. Mike Lovett rents a room in a Brooklyn boarding house with the intention of writing a novel. Wounded during World...
