Deer Park - Softcover

Mailer, Norman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425032647 ISBN 13: 9780425032640

Publisher: Berkley Pub Group, 1976

Synopsis

First published in 1957 and now reissued, a satirical novel about the excesses of Hollywood in which a former USAF pilot arrives in the fashionable Californian resort of Desert D'Or to write the Great American Novel, but finds that he is increasingly lured by greed and ruled by weakness. From the author of ANCIENT EVENINGS and BARBARY SHORE.

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Review:

Praise for "The Deer Park"
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"A scathing portrayal of Hollywood . . . studded with brilliant and illuminating passages."--"The New York Times Book Review"
"A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent . . . [Mailer] drives us up and down "The Deer Park" at breakneck speed. It is a trip through unfamiliar country, for a time funny and then unnerving."--"The New Yorker"
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"Savage . . . brilliant . . . exhilarating."--"The Atlantic Monthly"
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"Entertaining and wise . . . In addition to his furious energy and true ear, Mailer is "simpatico "with humanity . . . on a level rare in American fiction."--"The New Republic"
Praise for Norman Mailer
"[Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation."--"The New York Times"
"A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent."--"The New Yorker"
"Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure."--"The Washington Post"
"A devastatingly alive and original creative mind."--"Life"
"Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance."--"The New York Review of Books"
"The largest mind and imagination [in modern] American literature . . . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book."--"Chicago Tribune"
"Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream."--"The Cincinnati Post"

Praise for "The Deer Park"
""
A scathing portrayal of Hollywood . . . studded with brilliant and illuminating passages. "The New York Times Book Review"
A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent . . . [Mailer] drives us up and down "The Deer Park" at breakneck speed. It is a trip through unfamiliar country, for a time funny and then unnerving. "The New Yorker"
""
Savage . . . brilliant . . . exhilarating. "The Atlantic Monthly"
""
Entertaining and wise . . . In addition to his furious energy and true ear, Mailer is "simpatico "with humanity . . . on a level rare in American fiction. "The New Republic"
Praise for Norman Mailer
[Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation. "The New York Times"
A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent. "The New Yorker"
Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure. "The Washington Post"
A devastatingly alive and original creative mind. "Life"
Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance. "The New York Review of Books"
The largest mind and imagination [in modern] American literature . . . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book. "Chicago Tribune"
Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream. "The Cincinnati Post""

Praise for The Deer Park

A scathing portrayal of Hollywood . . . studded with brilliant and illuminating passages. The New York Times Book Review
A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent . . . [Mailer] drives us up and down The Deer Park at breakneck speed. It is a trip through unfamiliar country, for a time funny and then unnerving. The New Yorker

Savage . . . brilliant . . . exhilarating. The Atlantic Monthly

Entertaining and wise . . . In addition to his furious energy and true ear, Mailer is simpatico with humanity . . . on a level rare in American fiction. The New Republic

Praise for Norman Mailer

[Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation. The New York Times
A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent. The New Yorker
Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure. The Washington Post
A devastatingly alive and original creative mind. Life
Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance. The New York Review of Books
The largest mind and imagination [in modern] American literature . . . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book. Chicago Tribune
Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream. The Cincinnati Post

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From the Back Cover:

Desert D'Or is the fashionable Californian resort where Hollywood's glittering élite converge when they need a break from the city of celluloid dreams. It is an incestuous hothouse of a town – a haven for manipulators, film stars, lovers, pimps, producers, whores, gamblers, scriptwriters and cheats.

Into this nightmare world of depravity arrives Sergius O'Shaughnessy, recently discharged from the Air Force, traumatised by his war experiences and trying to write the Great American Novel. But O'Shaughnessy's burning ambition begins to lose its edge as he is drawn deeper into the reckless lives of Charles Eitel, the disgraced film genius, Lulu Meyers, the egomaniacal young movie star and the seedy, perspiring studio chief Herman Teppis. Lured by greed and ruled by weakness, O'Shaughnessy soon becomes disturbingly familiar with the dangerous life of slick compromises and sexual follies...

Mailer's third novel, 'The Deer Park' is a powerful and vigorous satire on Hollywood's excesses and corruptions. Combining a savage imagination with a heightened documentary realism, Mailer painted an uncompromising and terrifying portrait of a society in moral confusion and despair.

“It is the peculiar insight and power of 'The Deer Park' that it does not present its unhappy conditions sensationally, but as though they were common enough, which they are, and as though people succeeded in living with them for years, which they do. As a Hollywood novel, 'The Deer Park' ranks with F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Last Tycoon' and Nathanael West's 'The Day of the Locust'. It speaks for promising, gifted people anywhere who have succumbed to their appetites and lost their spirit among the singularly intricate temptations of the modern world.”
NEWSWEEK

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0425032647
• ISBN 13: 9780425032640
• Binding: Paperback