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An American Dream

Pages
258
Published
1937
Language
English

Synopsis

Norman Mailer's "An American Dream" plunges into the dark heart of a man consumed by his own desires and demons. This novel explores the destructive impulses of a successful television executive whose life spirals into violence and moral decay. It's a raw look at the American psyche when ambition and ego collide with primal urges.

About the author

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Norman Mailer

Norman Kingsley Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter and film director. Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, John McPhee, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of narrative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, which superimposes the essay onto the nonfiction novel. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice and the National Book Award once. In 1955, Mailer, together with Ed Fancher and Dan Wolf, fir...