The Barbary Shore (Signed Bookplate Laid-in)
by MAILER, Norman [Kingsley]
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Author's second novel in which a World War ll veteran, with amnesia, rents a room in Brooklyn with the intention of writing a book. ADAMS, Norman Mailer: A Comprehensive Bibiliography, p.1.
Synopsis
Barbary Shore is Norman Mailer's second published novel, written after Mailer's great success with his 1948 debut The Naked and the Dead. It concerns a protagonist who rents a room in a Brooklyn boarding house with the intention of writing a novel. Wounded during World War II, he is an amnesiac, and much of his past is a secret to himself. After Rinehart & Company published the novel in 1951, it received poor reviews and sold poorly.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52984
- Title
- The Barbary Shore (Signed Bookplate Laid-in)
- Author
- MAILER, Norman [Kingsley]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Rinehart
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1951
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Drama;
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