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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''. | ||
Mailer's triumph! | [[Norman Mailer|Mailer's]] triumph! | ||
THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL | THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL | ||
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{{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 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|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 | |||
[[Category:Full Text Advertisements]] | [[Category:Full Text Advertisements]] | ||