An American Dream Expanded/Advertising Copy

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An American Dream Expanded.

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