Stephen Rojack is a decorated war hero, a former Congressman,
and a certified public intellectual with his own television show.
He is also married to the very rich, very beautiful, and utterly
amoral Deborah Caughlin Kelly. But one night, in the prime of his
existence, he hears the moon talking to him on the terrace of a
fashionable New York high-rise, and it is urging him to kill
himself. It is almost as a defense against that infinitely
seductive voice that Rojack murders his wife. In this wild
battering ram of a novel, which was originally published to vast
controversy in 1965, Norman Mailer creates a character who might be
a fictional precursor of the philosopher-killer he would later
profile in "The Executioner's Song." As Rojack runs amok through
the city in which he was once a privileged citizen, Mailer peels
away the layers of our social norms to reveal a world of pure
appetite and relentless cruelty. Sensual, horrifying, and informed
by a vision that is one part Nietzsche, one part de Sade, and one
part Charlie Parker, "An American Dream "grabs the reader by the
throat and refuses to let go.
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