Barbary Shore, Norman Mailer
Barbary Shore, Norman Mailer
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Barbary Shore

Author: Norman Mailer

Narrator: MacLeod Andrews

Unabridged: 9 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 11/15/2016

Synopsis

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.

About Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer was born in 1923 in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955, he was one of the co-founders of The Village Voice. He is the author of more than thirty books, including The Naked and the Dead; The Armies of the Night, for which he won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; The Executioner's Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize; Harlot's Ghost; Oswald's Tale; and The Gospel According to the Son. He lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts, with his wife, the novelist Norris Church Mailer.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ian

There Was Music in the Cafes at Night and Revolution in the Air Published in 1951, when Norman Mailer was 28, "Barbary Shore" is a novel about sex and radical politics. In a way, Mailer was defining his characters (and through them, himself) in terms of sexual exuberance and political engagement. The N......more

Goodreads review by Michael

When you get into the work of a writer there comes an eventual time when you take it upon yourself to explore the lesser realms of his or her career -- the awkward phases, the ambitious but ill-considered projects, the embarrassing debacles -- usually with the intent to glean something long undiscov......more

Goodreads review by Ted

There are no Mailer fans less avid than I, but Barbary Shore is an awkward, lead-footed novel in which the author is trying to turn a handful of notions about Marxism, existentialism, and an bizarre blend of Reichian/Laurentian sexual dialectics into a plausible accounting of one would-be writer's r......more

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