Barbary Shore

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Barbary Shore
First edition
Author	Norman Mailer
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Rinehart & Company
Publication date	1951
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Preceded by	The Naked and the Dead
Followed by	The Deer Park

Barbary Shore is Norman Mailer's second published novel, written after Mailer's great success with his 1948 debut The Naked and the Dead. It concerns a protagonist who rents a room in a Brooklyn boarding house with the intention of writing a novel. Wounded during World War II, he is an amnesiac, and much of his past is a secret to himself. After Rinehart & Company published the novel in 1951, it received poor reviews and sold poorly. The failure of Barbary Shore and Mailer's next novel, The Deer Park (1955) triggered a decade-long hiatus from the novel by Mailer, which ended with the publication of An American Dream in 1965.

Reviews

"Last of the Leftists?", Time Magazine, May 28, 1951

v t e Works by Norman Mailer

Fiction	The Naked and the Dead Barbary Shore The Deer Park An American Dream The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer Why Are We in Vietnam? A Transit to Narcissus The Executioner's Song Of Women and Their Elegance Ancient Evenings Tough Guys Don't Dance Harlot's Ghost The Gospel According to the Son The Castle in the Forest

Non-fiction	"The White Negro" Advertisements for Myself The Presidential Papers Cannibals and Christians The Bullfight The Armies of the Night The Idol and the Octopus Miami and the Siege of Chicago Of a Fire on the Moon King of the Hill The Prisoner of Sex Existential Errands St. George and The Godfather The Faith of Graffiti Genius and Lust Of a Small and Modest Malignancy, Wicked and Bristling with Dots Pieces and Pontifications The Spooky Art Why Are We At War?

Biography	Marilyn: A Biography The Fight Oswald's Tale Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man

Film	Beyond the Law Wild 90 Maidstone Tough Guys Don't Dance

Teleplays	The Executioner's Song American Tragedy Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story

Other	The Deer Park (play) Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters) (poetry) Some Honorable Men (anthology) The Time of Our Time (anthology) Modest Gifts (poems and drawings) The Big Empty (dialogues) On God (conversation)

Film and TV adaptations	The Naked and the Dead An American Dream Marilyn: The Untold Story The Time of Her Time

Category:Works by Norman Mailer

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