An American dream
Norman Mailer, Dell Publishing Company (Publisher)
"An American dream" is concerned with two levels of violence. One is the violence of its lurid, near-melodramatic plot; the other, and more important, is the violence that flares like an existential hell below the formica surface of American life. Form the moment Stephen Rojack, war hero and Congressman turned professor and television personality, murders his maddening wife and begins his desperate flight through the underground of the city and the soul, we are caught up in a tale of savage sexual and psychological candor, dazzling social observation, and intense moral relevance. "An American dream" stands as Norman Mailer's most ambitious and uncompromising achievement in fiction. - p. [4] of wrapper
Print Book, English, 1978
[Dell Publishing Co., Inc.], New York, N.Y., 1978