An American Dream

Norman Mailer

Translated by Peter Baudisch first published 1965 Knaur, 1972 250 pages

Knaur TB — book 187

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 a...

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An American dream edition · 1999 · Vintage Books · 270 pages
An American Dream (Flamingo Modern Classics) paperback · 1994 · Flamingo · 240 pages · 9780586091708
An American dream edition · 1987 · Holt · 270 pages
An American Dream audiobook · 1986 · DH Audio · 9780886461201
An American Dream paperback · 1983 · Doubleday · 9780385278874
Der Alptraum edition · 1972 · Knaur · 250 pages
An American dream edition · 1972 · Panther · 252 pages

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