Bargain @ $1.99 from Random House in Canada & the US:
The Deer Park by the late Norman Mailer (
Wikipedia), his vintage 1955 satirical Hollywood literary novel which was apparently rejected by the original publisher for obscenity, leading to a lawsuit, according to
its Wikipedia entry. It turns out there's a vintage
1950s-era New York Times review of it available at their website, if you're interested.
Amid the cactus wilds some two hundred miles from Hollywood lies a privileged oasis called Desert D’Or. It is a place for starlets, directors, studio execs, and the well-groomed lowlifes who cater to them. And, as imagined by Norman Mailer in this blistering classic, Desert D’Or is a moral proving ground, where men and women discover what they really want—and how far they are willing to go to get it. 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.
Also, if you happen to read French and have an interest in its 1950s-era literature and authors as well, there's a sale bargain from Hachette's Stock imprint's La Bleue line (reprinting modern francophone classics and adjacent material):
@ $5.99 CAD (probably discounted in other regions as well; other books in this line are $11+ CAD and Amazon CA lists this as a special on their French Kindle Books promo page),
Je ne renie rien: Entretiens 1955-1992 by the late Françoise Sagan (
Wikipedia), containing extensive interviews with the French novelist and playwright, best known for
Bonjour Tristesse (
Wikipedia), adapted into a classic film starring Deborah Kerr, David Niven, and Jean Seberg.