Ancient Evenings (Picador Books)
by:
Norman Mailer (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780330284073 (033028407X)
Publish date: 1983
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 709
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Ancient,
Egypt,
Mythology
this is my roommate's favorite book (and I knew that before moving in with him), so I said I'd give it a try. sweet merciful egyptian gods, what was that? I can't even use my "didn't quite expect that" tag, because I don't know what that was. It's well written, and if you're into loveless sodomy and...
If D.K. Broster's books strike one as being overly-clean for their hidden emotional subtext, this novel gives the absolute opposite impression of dirtiness and filth. The mud of the Nile pervades the whole, as does the sheer, stinking physicality of human sex, even in the most palatial surroundings....
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