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Mike Lovett rents a room in a Brooklyn boarding house with the intention of writing a novel. Wounded during World War II, Lovett is an amnesiac, and much of his past is a secret to himself. But Lovett's housemates have secrets of their own. As these mysterious figures vie for Lovett's allegiance, Barbary Shore plays havoc with our certainties, combining Kafkaesque unease with Orwellian paranoia and delivering its effects with a power that Mailer has made all his own.
Set in a seedy Brooklyn boarding house during the McCarthy era, an aspiring writer, suffering from amnesia, is trying to rebuild his identity while living among a group of people caught up in domestic violence and raw emotion.
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Dorothy Jaworski
reviewed Barbary Shore on May 14, 2011
Barbary Shore
Wow, very strange book. not at all like An American Dream, at least in the beginning; the insane desire-and-sense-driven narrative isn't here, instead there's a quiet, slow, almost kafka-esque build involving a bunch of mysterious and strange-talking roomers in a boardinghouse in what seems to be a twilight zone version of the cold war (or maybe something out of a sartre play). hints and allegations, insanity and duplicity, it's all very intriguing, and-- despite the fact that very little happens-- definitely a page-turner... until about halfway through, that is, when suddenly everything goes horribly wrong... all the cards get turned over at once and we're left with just a bunch of people sitting a room tiresomely debating communism. mailer's still an amazing writer, and i am greatly enjoying my rediscovery of him, but good lord, when he goes off the rails, he really goes off the rails... it's been a long time since the second half of a book let me down as much as this one.
oh wait... an american dream. seems to be a trend developing.
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