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{{cquote|''AN AMERICAN DREAM'' is Mailer’s most remarkable achievement…Like an ancient tragedy it is a work of fierce concentration…It centers on a domestic crime-which is also dynastic, a crime of passion which is also political…It is an American Dream as Oedipus the King is a Greek dream…a dramatization of those possibilities in ourselves that we starve to shadows in our waking hours and that return to raven us in our dreams… Thought the idiom of the novel is perfectly, and often brilliantly, realistic, the atmosphere is mythic. The encounters take place on the brink…the states of mind are extreme, rendered with an extraordinary almost unbearable immediacy. |author=Paul Pickrel|source=”Harper’s”}}
{{cquote|''AN AMERICAN DREAM'' is Mailer’s most remarkable achievement…Like an ancient tragedy it is a work of fierce concentration…It centers on a domestic crime-which is also dynastic, a crime of passion which is also political…It is an American Dream as Oedipus the King is a Greek dream…a dramatization of those possibilities in ourselves that we starve to shadows in our waking hours and that return to raven us in our dreams… Thought the idiom of the novel is perfectly, and often brilliantly, realistic, the atmosphere is mythic. The encounters take place on the brink…the states of mind are extreme, rendered with an extraordinary almost unbearable immediacy. |author=Paul Pickrel|source=”Harper’s”}}
{{cquote|(Here) are the scenes of rare fictional quality one has come to expect from ''Mailer’s'' vision: the malevolent lilt of the Negro’ crooner’s colloquy; Rojack’s confrontation of the mob in Tony’s joint; his tender scenes with Cherry; the clarity and drive of the police station scenes; the father-in-law’s immeasurable evil monologue’ and a lyric, loving scene—heralding a mellower Mailer—between Rojack and his stepdaughter, Deirdre… Mailer throws everything into his Saturnalian cathartic…to trouble all who are cloyed as Rojack and Mailer are by the sweet, sick-narcotic of 20th century life.|source=”Newsweek”}}
{{cquote|(Here) are the scenes of rare fictional quality one has come to expect from Mailer’s vision: the malevolent lilt of the Negro’ crooner’s colloquy; Rojack’s confrontation of the mob in Tony’s joint; his tender scenes with Cherry; the clarity and drive of the police station scenes; the father-in-law’s immeasurable evil monologue’ and a lyric, loving scene—heralding a mellower Mailer—between Rojack and his stepdaughter, Deirdre… Mailer throws everything into his Saturnalian cathartic…to trouble all who are cloyed as Rojack and Mailer are by the sweet, sick-narcotic of 20th century life.|source=”Newsweek”}}


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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.

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