Barbary Shore by Norman Mailer - 1951

E-29: Rinehart & Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1951. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Rinehart & Co. Inc. 1951. 312 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Signed by Norman Mailer on the title page. DJ present but lacking the spine and with chips and missing pieces present to the extremities of the DJ. Bound in decorated cloth boards. Boards has light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. 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. E-29; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .