Barbary Shore

For the region of North Africa, see Barbary Coast.

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 him. After Rinehart & Company published the novel in 1951, it received negative reviews and sold poorly. The failure of Barbary Shore and moderate success of 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.

Barbary Shore

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

Reviews

• "Last of the Leftists?". Time. May 28, 1951. Archived from the original on November 15, 2007.