num_pages: 398
description: 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 the are willing to go to get it. "The Deer Park" is the story of two interlacing love affairs. Sergius O'Shaugnessy is a young ex-Air Force pilot whose good looks and air of indifference launch him into the orbit of the radiant actress Lulu Meyers. Charles Eitel is a brilliant director wounded by accusations of communism--and whose liaison with the volatile Elena Esposito may supply the coup de grace to his career. 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.
language: English
title: The Deer Park
titlecomplete: The Deer Park
characters: Herman Teeppis, Dorothea O'Faye, Don Beda, Lulu Meyers, Charles Francis Eitel, Carlyle Munshin, Tony Tanner, Zenlia Beda, Sergius O'Shaugnessy, Bobby (Sweet Cherry), Teddy Pope, Elana Esposito, Marion Faye
genres: Classics, American, Film, Novels, American Fiction, 20th Century, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 1383
publisher: Abacus