false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172004197m/131793.jpg 131793 14 Stephen Rojack is a decorated war hero, a former Congressman, and a certified public intellectual with his own television show. He is also married to the very rich, very beautiful, and utterly amoral Deborah Caughlin Kelly. But one night, in the prime of his existence, he hears the moon talking to him on the terrace of a fashionable New York high-rise, and it is urging him to kill himself. It is almost as a defense against that infinitely seductive voice that Rojack murders his wife.<br><br>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 <i>The Executioner's Song</i>. As Rojack 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. Sensual, horrifying, and informed by a vision that is one part Nietzsche, one part de Sade, and one part Charlie Parker, <i>An American Dream </i>grabs the reader by the throat and refuses to let go. 293408 book 1965 An American Dream total:504|5:96|4:154|3:176|2:61|1:17| 504 1763 719 56 131793 0375700706 9780375700705 476 53 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172004197m/131793.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/131793.An_American_Dream 3 2 false Mon Jul 30 04:25:30 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 12 13:41:20 -0700 2007 more...]]> 131793 0375700706 9780375700705 476 53 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172004197m/131793.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/131793.An_American_Dream 3 0 false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 24 10:35:05 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 10:36:09 -0700 2009
After finishing it my general impression was: filthy and dark.

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