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|File:AAD-Esquire.jpg|Title and opening paragraph of the first installment of ''An American Dream'' in ''Esquire'', January 1964. | |||
|File:AAD-Proofs.jpg|Cover of uncorrected page proof of the Dial Press edition. | |||
|File:65-7.jpg|Front and spine of dust wrapper of the Dial Press edition. | |File:65-7.jpg|Front and spine of dust wrapper of the Dial Press edition. | ||
|File:1964 NM by Ann Barry.jpg|Back panel of dust wrapper of the Dial press edition: photograph of Mailer by Anne Barry. | |File:1964 NM by Ann Barry.jpg|Back panel of dust wrapper of the Dial press edition: photograph of Mailer by Anne Barry. | ||
|File:65-7a.jpg|Cover of the third Dell paperback edition, published February 1970. | |File:65-7a.jpg|Cover of the third Dell paperback edition, published February 1970. | ||
|File:Aad-ad.jpg|Advertisement in the ''New York Times'' for the ''Esquire'' serial version, 22 April 1964. | |File:Aad-ad.jpg|Advertisement in the ''New York Times'' for the ''Esquire'' serial version, 22 April 1964. | ||
|File:AAD-Cover-Mockup.jpg|An early ''AAD'' cover mockup. | |File:AAD-Cover-Mockup.jpg|An early ''AAD'' cover mockup. | ||
|File:Saturday Review.jpg|Cover of 20 March 1965 ''Saturday Review'' depicting Mailer. | |File:Saturday Review.jpg|Cover of 20 March 1965 ''Saturday Review'' depicting Mailer. | ||
|File:AAD-Bestsellers.jpg|Best seller list in ''Book Week'', 30 May 1965, showing the novel in No. 10 position. | |||
|File:19650315-Invitation.png|Invitation to the reception for the novel at the Village Vanguard in New York on publication day, 15 March 1965. | |File:19650315-Invitation.png|Invitation to the reception for the novel at the Village Vanguard in New York on publication day, 15 March 1965. | ||
|File:19660829-Invitation-Screening.png|An invitation to the screening of the film ''An American Dream''. | |File:19660829-Invitation-Screening.png|An invitation to the screening of the film ''An American Dream''. | ||
|File:AAD-Movie-Ad.jpg|Advertisement for the film version of the novel from Warner Brothers Pressbook. | |||
|File:1964-Bookseller.jpg|Cover of the British trade journal, ''The Bookseller'', 26 December 1964, featuring the forthcoming British edition of ''An American Dream'', published by Andre Deutsch. | |||
|File:1964-PW.jpg|Cover of ''Publishers’ Weekly'' featuring the forthcoming Dial Press version of ''An American Dream'', 12 October 1964. | |||
|File:65-7b.jpg|Paperback. | |||
|File:65-7d.jpg|Paperback. | |||
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| “ | An American Dream is Norman Mailer’s first novel in nine years. He wrote it at a high pitch, each chapter appearing in Esquire while he was still at work on the next: a method now unusual but common enough among the great novelists of the nineteenth century, which contributed much to the quivering tension of the story.
The theme of challenge suggested by Mailer’s choice of this method is very much a part of the book. His hero challenges the Devil himself. Stephen Rojack kills his wife, lies to the police, is interrogated by them, discovers a woman, his wife’s opposite, in whom he senses the truth and strength he longs for. The ingredients of his story are deliberately those familiar from many a thriller or movie-murder—suspense, sex—but Rojack lives these experiences with a fierce intensity which shatters their popular image and reveals extraordinary meanings behind them. He is a man who believes in God and the Devil, and to whom God is courage, not love. His actions become explosively significant because he feels that any one of them might open the crack through which the Devil’s power, or that of God, could flood in. Simply on the level of ‘what will happen next?’ An American Dream grips relentlessly: will the suspicious police pounce on Rojack? Will he and Cherry, his new girl, be able to establish the love which has begun to grow between them? But beyond this there is the immense exhilaration springing from the boldness and passion with which Norman Mailer tackles his central theme of man as the battleground for God and the Devil. This is his most exciting book since The Naked and the Dead, which became a modern classic and has sold, over two and a half million copies in the English language. |
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| — Dust jacket text, British edition, Andre Deutsch, April 1965. | ||
Gallery
Title and opening paragraph of the first installment of An American Dream in Esquire, January 1964.
Cover of uncorrected page proof of the Dial Press edition.
Front and spine of dust wrapper of the Dial Press edition.
Back panel of dust wrapper of the Dial press edition: photograph of Mailer by Anne Barry.
Cover of the third Dell paperback edition, published February 1970.
Advertisement in the New York Times for the Esquire serial version, 22 April 1964.
An early AAD cover mockup.
Cover of 20 March 1965 Saturday Review depicting Mailer.
Best seller list in Book Week, 30 May 1965, showing the novel in No. 10 position.
Invitation to the reception for the novel at the Village Vanguard in New York on publication day, 15 March 1965.
An invitation to the screening of the film An American Dream.
Advertisement for the film version of the novel from Warner Brothers Pressbook.
Cover of the British trade journal, The Bookseller, 26 December 1964, featuring the forthcoming British edition of An American Dream, published by Andre Deutsch.
Cover of Publishers’ Weekly featuring the forthcoming Dial Press version of An American Dream, 12 October 1964.
Paperback.
Paperback.
