A decorated war hero and former congressman, Stephen Rojack is a man who seems to have it all. After he murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise, however, Rojack runs amok through the city in which he was once a privileged citizen. Controversial upon its 1965 publication but now considered one of Norman Mailer's finest works, this darkly poetic novel peels away the layers of our social norms to reveal a world of pure appetite and relentless cruelty. "[Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation."—New York Times