The Deer Park, Norman Mailer
The Deer Park, Norman Mailer
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The Deer Park

Author: Norman Mailer

Narrator: John Buffalo Mailer

Unabridged: 12 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 10/25/2016

Synopsis

Amid the cactus wilds some two hundred miles from Hollywood lies a privileged oasis called Desert D'Or. It is a place for starlets and would-be starlets, directors, studio execs, and the well-groomed lowlifes who cater to them. And, as imagined by Norman Mailer in this blistering classic of 1950s Hollywood, 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.

About Norman Mailer

Born in Long Branch, NJ, in 1923, and raised in Brooklyn, Norman Mailer was one of the most influential writers of the second half of the 20th century and a leading public intellectual for nearly sixty years. He is the author of more than thirty books. The Castle in the Forest, his last novel, was his eleventh New York Times bestseller. His first novel, The Naked and the Dead, has never gone out of print. His 1968 nonfiction narrative, The Armies of the Night, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He won a second Pulitzer for The Executioner’s Song and is the only person to have won Pulitzers in both fiction and nonfiction. Five of his books were nominated for National Book Awards, and he won a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Foundation in 2005. Mr. Mailer died in 2007 in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ian on September 01, 2016

Flaws and Applause For all its flaws (and they are both numerous and substantial), "The Deer Park" is still one of my favourite novels of the 1950's. It deals with two personal interests and obsessions: radical Left-wing politics in the United States from the 1930’s to the 1950’s (including the House......more

Goodreads review by Bram on July 16, 2024

Not sure what to think of it. Certainly did not dislike reading this book. But I also have little recollection of what it is really about. I would say : read it and make up your own mind.......more

Goodreads review by SeanT_C2 on December 12, 2017

I picked this book up when I asked Ms. Lynch for American literature book suggestions, and was instantly hooked when I read the blurb, especially the phrase "...their uneasy flirtation with success and self-extinction creating a legendary portrait of America's machinery of desire." and how it linked......more

Goodreads review by Jim on May 22, 2022

Although I have been reading his nonfiction for decades, this is the first time I've read any of Norman Mailer's fiction. Fortunately, the experience was mostly positive. The Deer Park breaks some rules: Part of the novel is written in the first person from the point of view of a character named Ser......more

Goodreads review by Alexandra on March 02, 2008

An exquisite portrait of the relations between pride and desire. Also a great commentary on the artist's condition and a reference point for the jaded, the morally corrupt, the promiscuous and the unsure.......more

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