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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.   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   “Vibrant with life, abundant with real people . . . [Mailer has] a scintillating skill in observation, a mature sense of meaning.” — The Philadelphia Inquirer   “This book is nothing short of amazing.” — Newsweek   “ Barbary Shore [is] about the kind of country—and what you might call the psychic territory—that American war heroes were returning to.” — The Guardian   Praise for Norman Mailer   “[Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation.” — The New York Times   “A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent.” — The New Yorker   “Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure.” — The Washington Post   “A devastatingly alive and original creative mind.” — Life   “Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance.” — The New York Review of Books   “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.” — Chicago Tribune   “Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream.” — The Cincinnati Post