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BARBARY SHORE
by Mailer Norman
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- Hardcover
- first
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: Rinehart and Co, 1951. First edition. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth lettered in white on the spine, in scarce red, white and black dustjacket. 312 pp. A very fine copy with only very minimal evidence of age. The jacket in very pleasing condition with only light mellowing to the spine panel. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. Mailer’s second novel, dealing with the post-war era. “BARBARY SHORE is a courageous novel. Its theme is controversial and disturbing. It is written with uncompromising honesty and passionate conviction. It is our belief, as publishers, that it will be met by violent denunciation and enthusiastic approval.
“ As the NAKED AND THE DEAD was the most important novel of World War II, so, we believe, BARBARY SHORE will be one of the most memorable of its aftermath.” -R.C. A symbolic treatment of the conflict between leftist and rightist political forces in the United States.
“ As the NAKED AND THE DEAD was the most important novel of World War II, so, we believe, BARBARY SHORE will be one of the most memorable of its aftermath.” -R.C. A symbolic treatment of the conflict between leftist and rightist political forces in the United States.
Synopsis
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. Wounded during World War II, he is an amnesiac, and much of his past is a secret to himself. After Rinehart & Company published the novel in 1951, it received poor reviews and sold poorly.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Buddenbrooks, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24191
- Title
- BARBARY SHORE
- Author
- Mailer Norman
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Rinehart and Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1951
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