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From: Sussman & Sugar Inc., March 15, 1965. Advertising copy for the ''New York Times''. | From: Sussman & Sugar Inc., March 15, 1965. Advertising copy for the ''New York Times''. | ||
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''[[An American Dream|AN AMERICAN DREAM]]'' is a new experience. | ''[[An American Dream|AN AMERICAN DREAM]]'' is a new experience. | ||
{{cquote|It may well represent the first significant step the current American novel has taken into fresh territories of the imagination…}} | {{cquote|It may well represent the first significant step the current American novel has taken into fresh territories of the imagination…}} | ||
{{cquote|It can be recognized as a novel of the most advanced kind, a devil’s encyclopedia of our secret visions and desires, an American dream or nightmare in a very exact sense…}} | {{cquote|It can be recognized as a novel of the most advanced kind, a devil’s encyclopedia of our secret visions and desires, an American dream or nightmare in a very exact sense…}} | ||
{{cquote|It dramatizes the various ways in which a man may sin in order to be saved, become holy as well as whole by restoring the primitive psychic circuits that enable him to live in harmony with himself…}} | {{cquote|It dramatizes the various ways in which a man may sin in order to be saved, become holy as well as whole by restoring the primitive psychic circuits that enable him to live in harmony with himself…}} | ||
{{cquote|But even more importantly, ''AN AMERICAN DREAM'' is the expression of a devastatingly alive and original creative mind…There seems to be no limit to what ''Mailer'' is now suddenly able to do with words.}} | {{cquote|But even more importantly, ''AN AMERICAN DREAM'' is the expression of a devastatingly alive and original creative mind…There seems to be no limit to what ''Mailer'' is now suddenly able to do with words.}} | ||
{{cquote|And he has managed through that idiom to create an image of our time which will undoubtedly stand as authoritative for this generation.}} | {{cquote|And he has managed through that idiom to create an image of our time which will undoubtedly stand as authoritative for this generation.|author=John W. Aldridge|source=''Life''}} | ||
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Revision as of 09:18, 23 April 2019
From: Sussman & Sugar Inc., March 15, 1965. Advertising copy for the New York Times.
Mailer's triumph!
THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL
AN AMERICAN DREAM is a new experience.
| “ | It may well represent the first significant step the current American novel has taken into fresh territories of the imagination… | ” |
| “ | It can be recognized as a novel of the most advanced kind, a devil’s encyclopedia of our secret visions and desires, an American dream or nightmare in a very exact sense… | ” |
| “ | It dramatizes the various ways in which a man may sin in order to be saved, become holy as well as whole by restoring the primitive psychic circuits that enable him to live in harmony with himself… | ” |
| “ | But even more importantly, AN AMERICAN DREAM is the expression of a devastatingly alive and original creative mind…There seems to be no limit to what Mailer is now suddenly able to do with words. | ” |
| “ | And he has managed through that idiom to create an image of our time which will undoubtedly stand as authoritative for this generation. | ” |
| — John W. Aldridge, Life | ||
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