The Deer Park - Norman Mailer

\nAmid the cactus wilds some two hundred miles from Hollywood lies a privileged oasis called Desert D'Or. It is a place for starlets, directors, studio execs, and the well-groomed lowlifes who cater to them. And, as imagined by Norman Mailer in this blistering classic, Desert D'Or is a moral proving ground, where men and women discover what they really want--and how far they are willing to go to get it. As Mailer traces their couplings and uncouplings, their uneasy flirtation with success and self-extinction, he creates a legendary portrait of America's machinery of desire. \n Praise for The Deer Park \n \n A scathing portrayal of Hollywood . . . studded with brilliant and illuminating passages.--The New York Times Book Review \n \n 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 \n \n Savage . . . brilliant . . . exhilarating.--The Atlantic Monthly \n \n 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 \n \n Praise for Norman Mailer \n \n [Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation.--The New York Times \n \n A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent.--The New Yorker \n \n Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure.--The Washington Post \n \n A devastatingly alive and original creative mind.--Life \n \n Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance.--The New York Review of Books \n \n 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 \n \n Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream.--The Cincinnati Post\n