Barbary Shore
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Author | Norman Mailer |
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Language | English |
Publisher | Rinehart & Company |
Publication date | 1951 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Preceded by | The Naked and the Dead |
Followed by | The Deer Park |
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 him. After Rinehart & Company published the novel in 1951, it received negative reviews and sold poorly. The failure of Barbary Shore and moderate success of Mailer's next novel, The Deer Park (1955) triggered a decade-long hiatus from the novel by Mailer, which ended with the publication of An American Dream in 1965.
Reviews
- "Last of the Leftists?". Time. May 28, 1951. Archived from the original on November 15, 2007.
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- The Naked and the Dead
- Barbary Shore
- The Deer Park
- An American Dream
- The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer
- Why Are We in Vietnam?
- A Transit to Narcissus
- The Executioner's Song
- Of Women and Their Elegance
- Ancient Evenings
- Tough Guys Don't Dance
- Harlot's Ghost
- The Gospel According to the Son
- The Castle in the Forest
- The White Negro
- Advertisements for Myself
- "Superman Comes to the Supermarket"
- "In the Red Light"
- The Presidential Papers
- Cannibals and Christians
- The Bullfight
- The Armies of the Night
- The Idol and the Octopus
- Miami and the Siege of Chicago
- Of a Fire on the Moon
- King of the Hill
- The Prisoner of Sex
- Existential Errands
- St. George and The Godfather
- The Faith of Graffiti
- The Fight
- Genius and Lust
- Of a Small and Modest Malignancy, Wicked and Bristling with Dots
- Pieces and Pontifications
- The Spooky Art
- Why Are We At War?
- Marilyn: A Biography
- Oswald's Tale
- Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man
- Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream, 1963-1969
- The Selected Letters of Norman Mailer
- Beyond the Law
- Wild 90
- Maidstone
- Town Bloody Hall
- Tough Guys Don't Dance
- The Executioner's Song
- American Tragedy
- Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
- Strawhead (play)
- The Deer Park (play)
- Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters) (poetry)
- Some Honorable Men (anthology)
- The Time of Our Time (anthology)
- Modest Gifts (poems and drawings)
- The Big Empty (conversations)
- On God (conversations)
- Lipton’s: A Marijuana Journal (journal)
adaptations
- The Naked and the Dead
- An American Dream
- Marilyn: The Untold Story
- Adele Morales (second wife)
- Jeanne Campbell (third wife)
- Beverly Bentley (fourth wife)
- Norris Church Mailer (wife)
- Kate Mailer (daughter)
- Michael Mailer (son)
- Stephen Mailer (son)
- John Buffalo Mailer (son)
- Norman Mailer Prize
- Stabbing of Adele Morales by Norman Mailer
- New York City: the 51st State
- In the Belly of the Beast
- J. Michael Lennon (biographer)
- The Norman Mailer Society
- Norman Mailer bibliography
- The Mailer Review
- River of Fundament
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