The Deer Park

Norman Mailer's third novel is a thrilling and brutally honest satire of the excessive and deceptive Hollywood of the 1950s. Mailer's narrative art combines impetuous fantasy with almost documentary realism to paint an uncompromisingly disturbing portrait of a profoundly decadent society. Mailer radically confronts the "American Dream," questioning it, its values, and its paths to success. Yet he does not moralize; rather, it is a furious sympathy from which he so vividly and precisely sculpts his characters and episodes. Ultimately, he crafts a scandalous chronicle of the bygone Hollywood film world that is as entertaining as it is profound.

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