On the Brink of Barbarity

The young writer Mike Lovett rents a room in a boarding house in Brooklyn to write a novel there. He knows almost nothing about his past, having lost his memory due to a severe war injury. And his flatmates seem to be hiding their own secrets ... Mailer's second novel reflects one of the great themes of the post-war era: the competition between political systems and the development of capitalism and communism. His path to becoming a brilliant chronicler, who for decades grappled with America's political crises and cultural myths, is already laid out here.


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