Barbary Shore

Norman Mailer

At the height of the McCarthy era Norman Mailer proved his audacity by writing a novel about Socialism a book that is at once an elegy and an indictment sinuous moral thriller and an intellectual slugfest.

BARBARY SHORE features a cast of people in a Brooklyn boarding house caught up in a spiral of domestic violence and raw emotion. Mike Lovett is a writer living among them searching for a subject to write about and an identity to replace the one he lost to shell-shock and amnesia fighting the Nazis. Out of his efforts to make sense of the extraordinary behaviour of those around him Lovett adopts an unexpected allegiance and inherits a forceful political personality... one that is capable of confronting the re-emergence of totalitarian regimes and the global conflicts they generate.