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Amid the cactus wilds some two hudred 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.
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Classical in form, prestige, grave and character-led.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- Norman Mailer
- First published
- 1955
- Pages
- 360
- Publisher
- Perigee Books, Berkley Publishing Group, Non Stop-Bücherei
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780399505317
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Norman Kingsley Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter and film director. Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, John McPhee, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of narrative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, which superimposes the essay onto the nonfiction novel. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice and the National Book Award once. In 1955, Mailer, together with Ed Fancher and Dan Wolf, first published The Village Voice, which began as an arts and politics oriented weekly newspaper distributed in Greenwich Village. In 2005, he won the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letter
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