An American Dream

Stručný popis knihy An american dream:

• Anglická četba, Autor: Norman Mailer

• First published in 1965, this is the story of Stephen Rojack, war hero, politician, TV personality, who after murdering his rich and beautiful wife is catapulted into an alien world of gangsters, crumbling tenements, police brutality and sleazy nightclubs.

• The unrealistic nature of An American Dream is signaled in the novel’s first sentence, in which Stephen Richard Rojack, who is both the narrator and the protagonist, says that he met John F. Kennedy in 1946 and that they double-dated one night during which Rojack seduced Deborah Caughlin Mangaravidi Kelly, who later became his wife. By way of comparing his heroism with Kennedy’s, Rojack then tells of a war experience during which he single-handedly wiped out a German machine-gun nest and became a hero.

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