- Paperback: 1 pages
- Publisher: Abacus; New edition edition (Oct 2 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0349109974
- ISBN-13: 978-0349109978
- Product Dimensions: 13.1 x 20.4 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 299 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,285,162 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Deer Park ranks with F Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon and Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust. - Newsweek
Book Description
Desert D'Or is the fashionable Californian resort where Hollywood's elite converge when they need a break. 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 ar experiences and trying to write the Great American Novel. But O'Shaughnessy's burning ambition begins to lose its edge; lured by greed and rules by weakness, he soon becomes disturbingly familiar with the dnagerous life of slick compromises and sexual follies...The Deer Park is a powerful and vigorous satire on Hollywood's excesses and corruption. Combining a savage imagination with a heightened documentary realism, Mailer paints an uncompromising and terrifying portriat of a decadent society lost in moral confusion and despair.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
marion faye deserves his own book, eitel not a page,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Deer Park (Paperback)
i was a little disapointed that this book was so much about the world of actors,producers,and directors. i was hoping for more out right debauchary and vice.mostly i think it was focused way to much on the director eitel.i found him less than interesting, i would have thought this book a waste of my time if it wasnt for the burnout spiritual pimp,marion faye.he was the shadow in the background of all the movie people living in the spotlight.this shadow was my light.a book focused on marion would be a book of a god in the shadows.instead this book was focused on a bunch of arrogant show buisness pepople.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Another book review,
By skag_vicar (uk) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Deer Park (Paperback)
yeah, this book's pretty good if you like strong characters and no storyline. Its set in the 50s in a desert town populated by rich and powerful Hollywood people, and our hero wanders around getting to know these corrupt, weird and sometimes dangerous characters without anything really happening. But hey, its insightful and written with real verve by Mr Mailer, just don't expect too much from the storyline.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Most Provoctive Book I've Read In Years,
By strouds@patrol.i-way.co.uk (Royal Berkshire, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Deer Park (Paperback)
'The Deer Park' should become compulsary reading for the human race - forget school reading lists. It is an absolute masterpiece and Mailer's way words could knock Donna Tartt (author of Secret History) for six any day of the week. If you want to read a real masterpiece - sink your teeth into Mailer's 'Deer Park.' James P. Robinson
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