Deer Park

Norman Mailer's third novel is a compelling and unflinchingly frank satire on the excessive and dishonest Hollywood of the 1950s. Mailer's narrative art combines impetuous fantasy with almost documentary realism to paint an uncompromisingly disturbing portrait of a deeply corrupt society. Mailer radically confronts the "American Dream", questioning it, its values, its paths to success. Yet he does not moralize; it is more an angry sympathy from which he so vividly and precisely sculpts his characters and episodes. Ultimately, he produces a scandalous chronicle of the bygone Hollywood film world that is as entertaining as it is profound.


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