Barbary Shore

This is a clean copy of "BARBARY SHORE" by Norman Mailer (author of "The Naked and the Dead") with its original dust jacket. 1951; Rinehart & Company; New York. The dust jacket is un-clipped with the original $3.00 price intact on the front flap.

From the dust jacket: "Only the author of The Naked and the Dead could have written this remarkable novel about our post-war world. There are only six principal characters in Barbary Shore - two women, three men, and a child. Yet out of their extraordinary relationships - to each other, to the world around them - Norman Mailer has extracted the dilemma of our times. A novel of action, it is also a novel of ideas, and the interplay evokes a gamut of comedy, of horror, of excitement, of tragedy whose bearing on our world is inescapable. To some, Barbary Shore will read like a fascinating mystery story, filled with the echoes, the whispers, the ghosts of a world on the brink of disaster. to others - in the vividness of its characters and their struggles - it will be frighteningly real. As The Naked and the Dead was the most important novel of World War II, so, we believe, Barbary Shore will be on of the most memorable of its aftermath."

Condition:
Clean covers and spine; sharp corners; some light chipping at the top and bottom edges of the spine. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. Clean interior with no issues found - the inside of the book nearly appears unread. The dust jacket is un-clipped with the $3.00 price intact on the front flap; there are tears at the edges of the spine that have been repaired on the back-side with clear tape.