An American Dream  (English, Paperback, Mailer Norman)

'A devil's encyclopedia of our secret visions and desires' life

War hero. ex-Congressman. television personality and husband of the rich and beautiful Deborah Ca girl who would have been bored by a diamond ring as big as the Ritz'). Stephen RoJack is living the American Dream - until the constant 'itch to Jump' finally conquers him and he strangles his luscious wife, unleashing a personality of undramatic-of ferocity. Catapulted into an alien world of gangsters, crumbling tenements and downtown bars. RoJack meets Cherry. a small-time singer who ekes out a living in sleazy nightclubs. waiting for a break. Soon he's falling for her - dangerously, desperately. tragically . . .

An American Dream shocked the USA on first publication in 1965 with its graphic scenes of sex and violence. A powerful exploration of one man's quest for depravity, it remains a key work of twentieth-century American literature.