{"product_id":"american-dream-book-norman-mailer-9780812986136","title":"An American Dream","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eThe Executioner's Song\u003c\/i\u003e. 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, \u003ci\u003eAn American Dream\u003c\/i\u003e grabs the reader by the throat and refuses to let go.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eAn American Dream\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Perhaps the only serious New York novel since \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003cb\u003e-Joan Didion, \u003ci\u003eNational Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A devil's encyclopedia of our secret visions and desires . . . the expression of a devastatingly alive and original creative mind.\"\u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A work of fierce concentration . . . perfectly, and often brilliantly, realistic with a pattern of remarkable imaginative coherence and intensity.\"\u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"At once violent, educated, and cool . . . This is our history as Hawthorne might have written it.\"\u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eCommentary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for Norman Mailer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \" Norman Mailer loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation.\"\u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent.\"\u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure.\"\u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A devastatingly alive and original creative mind.\"\u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance.\"\u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"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.\"\u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream.\"\u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eThe Cincinnati Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49598955651345,"sku":"GOR009408339","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49729881145617,"sku":"NGR9780812986136","price":21.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50245019271441,"sku":"CIN081298613XVG","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50641121640721,"sku":"CIN081298613XG","price":4.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/081298613X.jpg?v=1751296630","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/american-dream-book-norman-mailer-9780812986136","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}