num_pages: 240
description: Paperback. Pub Date :2006-05-15 240 English HarperCollins UK A key backlist title from the highly acclaimed author of The Naked and the Dead and The Fight.War hero. ex-Congressman. a professor of ' popular but somewhat notorious reputation '. television personality and husband of the rich and beautiful Deborah (' a girl who would have been bored by a diamond as big as the Ritz '). Stephen Rojack lived the American Dream.But his enviable life concealed a strange tension. the constant 'itch to jump'. and when one day he finally cracks and strangles his luscious wife. he unleashes a personality of undreamt-of ferocity.A wanted murderer. Rojack is suddenly catapulted into an alien world of gangsters. crumbling tenements and downtown bars.Here. he meets Cherry. a small-time singer who ekes out her living in sleazy nightclubs. waiting for a break.She 's...
language: English
title: An American Dream
titlecomplete: An American Dream
characters: Stephen Rojack
genres: Fiction, American, Literary Fiction, The United States Of America, American Fiction, Literature, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Crime
ratings_count: 3748
places: New York City, New York
publisher: Harper