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{{DISPLAYTITLE:Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965}} | DATE OF REVIEW - 3/22/1965 | ||
[[65.7|AN AMERICAN DREAM]] | |||
By Norman Mailer | |||
Publisher - Dial Press, 1965 | |||
{{DISPLAYTITLE:An American Dream Expanded/Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965}} | |||
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SCENE: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam. | |||
<blockquote>Tent is lit by a gasoline lantern. (First) Soldier is sitting on Cot, writing letter. (Second) Soldier enters tent & sits on another cot, Reads ''An American Dream'' for a minute, then speaks.</blockquote> | |||
(First soldier looks old enough to have children. Second soldier can be younger.) | |||
<p>2nd Soldier: "Who you writing to?"</p> | |||
<p>1st Soldier: "Judy and the kids. Watcha reading?"</p> | |||
<p>2nd Soldier: "New novel by Norman Mailer, the guy that wrote ''The Naked and the Dead''. You read that?"</p> | |||
<p>1st Soldier: "I read it twice. Good book. Old Mailer knew the army all right. This new thing any good?"</p> | |||
<p>2nd Soldier: "I don't know for sure. I'm about halfway through it, and I can't figure out what he's trying to say</p> | |||
<p>1st Soldier: "What's he call it? Is it as rugged as ''The Naked and the Dead''?"</p> | |||
<blockquote>2nd Solider holds book up so first soldier can see cover and camera can show it.</blockquote> | |||
<p>2nd Soldier: "Dad you know it. It's called ''An American Dream'', and it's pretty wild in spots. My girl friend sent it to me, and I don't know if she read it, but there's some parts I'd just as soon she skip."</p> | |||
<blockquote>Second Soldier Tosses book to first</blockquote> | |||
<p>1st Soldier: "Let's see it a minute." "What does the dust jacket say?" | |||
(1st Soldier Quotes From Jacket Blurb)</p> | |||
(As second soldier listens, he can nod agreement now and then.) | |||
"The hero of ''An American Dream'' is Stephen Richards Rojack, a war hero, college professor, television performer and the husband of an immensely wealthy girl." | |||
Page 2 | |||
''An American Dream'' | |||
<p>2nd Soldier: "You read that very well." | |||
<p>(1st Soldier continues after shrugging off comment) | |||
"The time of the novel is 32 hours. In those 32 hours Rojack journeys through every imaginable evil, and some all but unimaginable pleasures--an existential pilgrimage of great peril, of profound suspense."</p> | |||
<p>(2nd Soldier, Interrupting Again:) | |||
"I don't know about that suspense jazz."</p> | |||
<p>1st Soldier: (Continues)</p> | |||
"The milieu of ''An American Dream'' is New York City -- the night-time of plush East Side duplex apartments. | |||
<p>2nd Soldier: "I'd rather be there than here."</p> | |||
<p>1st Soldier: (Continues) | |||
"of police precinct stations, of after-hours clubs, of Lower East Side tenements... Onto this environment Mailer impresses his singular imagination | |||
creating a classic world of action and horror that takes on the dimensions of an American myth." "This doesn't sound so confusing. What do you mean, | |||
you don't know what it's about?"</p> | |||
<p>2nd Soldier: "What I mean, old buddy, is I know what Mailer wrote. I just don't know what he's trying to get at."</p> | |||
<p>1st Soldier: "Well, should I read it or not?"</p> | |||
Page 3 | |||
''An American Dream'' | |||
<p>2nd Soldier: "Lemme put it this way, Dad. I wouldn't recommend it for my mother 'cause she'd give me you-know-what for reading a dirty book. You remember that part of the jacket you read where it said the hero is a television performer? Well, he's even more of a bedroom performer, so I guess that lets out anybody who gets shocked easy. When you come right down to it, I'd say I'm about the only person I know who's worldly enough to read it without getting all shook up."</p> | |||
<p>1st Soldier: "Well, I'm older than you, and I'm twice as worldly. Just you let me read it, and I'll tell ''you'' what it's all about. OK?"</p> | |||
<p>2nd Soldier: "Good Luck, Frank Buck."</p> | |||
'' # # # # # # # # # #'' | |||
Review written by Donald M. Boucher | |||
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