Norman Mailer and 'The Deer Park'

PROVOCATIVE....That is the idea of the turgid and menacing Norman Mailer book, 'The Deer Park.'  This Mailer tome careens along telling us the slimey aspects of Hollywood-style life in the 1950s.  Mailer's depiction of the somewhat sordid life in a rather extreme desert community is so engaging.  Mailer's emotionalism is profound and seduces us,bringing us into his coterie of satisfied readers.  I have been a fan of the works of Norman Mailer for a long time.  I am a veteran of modernist reading...witness my venerable face.