55.4: Difference between revisions

=====''The Deer Park''. New York: Putnam’s, 14 October; London: Wingate, 1957. Novel, 375 pp., $4.=====

Republished with preface by [[Norman Mailer|Mailer]] and “Fourth Advertisement for Myself: The Last Draft of ''The Deer Park''” from ''Advertisements for Myself'' ([[59.13]]). New York: Berkley, November 1976 ([[76.14]]). Dedication: “To [[Adele Morales|Adele]] my wife and to Daniel Wolf my friend.” Discarded title: ''The Idol and the Octopus''. The suppressed Rinehart version of this novel was to have been published 14 February. Six other publishers rejected it before Walter Minton of Putnam’s accepted it. The novel (first printing, 20,000) spent 15 weeks on the ''New York Times'' bestseller list, climbing to number six on 20 November.  

{{cquote|I had an idea of what I was going to do. I knew it was going to be a story about a most unhappy love. The problem was getting to the affair: I could hardly wait to reach it, especially because the early parts of the novel were so difficult to write. It is truly difficult to trap Hollywood in a novel. Only in the last draft did I finally get the setting the way I wanted it. I think now the setting is probably the best part. In fact I would judge that the first fifty pages of ''The Deer Park'' are the best writing I have ever done in fiction. But they were the hardest fifty pages of the book to write and certainly took the longest time. |author=Norman Mailer |source=[[64.01]]}}

 

'''Reviews'''

* {{cite magazine |last=Lidner |first=Robert |date=November 9, 1955 |title=Review of ''The Deer Park'' |url= |magazine=Village Voice |location= |publisher= |access-date= }} Positive. See [[56.9]].

'''Essays'''

* {{cite book |last=Balbert |first=Peter |chapter=From ''Lady Chatterley’s Lover'' to ''The Deer Park'': Marriage, Renewal, and the Dialectic of Erotic Risk |date=2016 |title=D.H. Lawrence and the Marriage Matrix |url= |location=Newcastle upon Tyne, UK |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |pages=244–273 |isbn=9781443893053 |author-link= }} Rpt.: ''[[Mailer Review]]'' (2016).

* {{cite book |last=Merrill |first=Robert |chapter=''The Deer Park'': The Rare Tenderness of Tragedy |date=1992 |title=Norman Mailer Revisited |url= |location=New York |publisher=Twayne Publishers |pages=31–60 |isbn=9780805739671 |author-link= }}

* {{cite book |last=Radford |first=Jean |date=1975 |title=Norman Mailer: A Critical Study |url= |location=New York |publisher=Harper & Row |pages=19–27, 132–40 |isbn=9781349024025 |author-link= }}

* {{cite book |last=Rhodes |first=Chip |chapter=Hollywood Fictions |date=2010 |title=Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles |url= |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=135–144 |isbn=9781139825405 |author-link= }}