The Deer Park by Norman Mailer - ISBN: 9780349109978
Paperback
Desert D’Or is the fashionable Californian resort where Hollywood’s elite converge when they need a break. When Sergius O’Shaughnessy, recently discharged from the Air Force, arrives, he finds his burning ambition as a novelist is weakened by the depravity and recklessness of the resort.

The Deer Park

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  • Paperback

    416 pages

  • Release Date

    3 January 1998

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Summary

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 …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780349109978
ISBN-10:0349109974
Author:Norman Mailer
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Abacus
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:416
Release Date:3 January 1998
Weight:282g
Dimensions:196mm x 129mm x 26mm
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Critics Review

The Deer Park ranks with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Last Tycoon and Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust - NewsweekBrilliant and illuminating - New York Times

The Deer Park ranks with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Last Tycoon and Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust - Newsweek

Brilliant and illuminating - New York Times

About The Author

Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer was born in 1923 and served in the South Pacific in WWII. Twice awarded the Pulizter Prize for The Armies of the Night and The Executioner’s Song.

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