Barbary Shore

For the region of North Africa, see Barbary Coast.
Barbary Shore

First edition
Author Norman Mailer
Country United States
Language English
Publisher Rinehart & Company
Publication date
 1951
Media type Print (hardcover)
Preceded by The Naked and the Dead
Followed by The Deer Park

Barbary Shore is Norman Mailer's second published novel, written after Mailer's great success with his 1948 debut The Naked and the Dead. It concerns a protagonist who rents a room in a Brooklyn boarding house with the intention of writing a novel. Wounded during World War II, he is an amnesiac, and much of his past is a secret to himself. After Rinehart & Company published the novel in 1951, it received poor reviews and sold poorly. The failure of Barbary Shore and Mailer's next novel, The Deer Park (1955) triggered a decade-long hiatus from the novel by Mailer, which ended with the publication of An American Dream in 1965.

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