Once Upon a Time in HollywoodAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 16 August 2022
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#1New York TimesBestseller
Classic, sparks-flying Tarantino. Washington Post
Quentin Tarantinos debut work of fiction is an audacious, hilarious, disturbing novel about life in the movie colony, circa 1969. Here is Hollywood, both the fairy tale and the real thing, as given to us by a master storyteller who knows it like the back of his hand. This new edition includes a foreword by Walter Kirn.
RICK DALTONOnce he had his own TV series, but now Ricks a washed-up villain-of-the week drowning his sorrows in whiskey sours. Will a phone call from Rome save his fate or seal it?
CLIFF BOOTHRicks stunt double, and the most infamous man on any movie set because hes the only one there who might have got away with murder. . . .
SHARON TATEShe left Texas to chase a movie-star dream, and found it. Sharons salad days are now spent on Cielo Drive, high in the Hollywood Hills.
CHARLES MANSONThe ex-cons got a bunch of zonked-out hippies thinking hes their spiritual leader, but hed trade it all to be a rock n roll star.
These indelible charactersand many more: an acting child prodigy beaming with hope; a booze-drenched former A-lister whos lost it alloccupy a vanished world from not so long ago that is brought to brilliant life in these pages.As theNew York Timesraves,Tarantinos first novel is, to borrow a phrase from his oeuvre, a tasty beverage. . . . [He] makes telling a page-turning story look easy, which is the hardest trick of all.
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