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By (author) Tarantino Quentin Short description/annotation:The highly anticipated, groundbreaking and hugely entertaining novel from one of the all-time great storytellers.Description:

Quentin Tarantino”s long-awaited first work of fiction – at once hilarious, delicious, and brutal – is the always surprising, sometimes shocking new novel based on his Academy Award-winning film.RICK DALTON – Once he had his own TV series, but now Rick”s 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 BOOTH – Rick”s stunt double, and the most infamous man on any movie set because he”s the only one there who might have gotten away with murder . . . SHARON TATE – She left Texas to chase a movie-star dream, and found it. Sharon”s salad days are now spent on Cielo Drive, high in the Hollywood Hills.CHARLES MANSON – The ex-con”s got a bunch of zonked-out hippies thinking he”s their spiritual leader, but he”d trade it all to be a rock ”n” roll star.HOLLYWOOD 1969 – YOU SHOULDA BEEN THERE

Review quote:Outrageous and addictively readable… The book is a reminder that Tarantino is, in fact, a really good writer, and it should not be so surprising that his brilliance as a screenwriter should be transferable into fiction.Review quote:The book is a distinct experience – rangier, sexier, bloodier … Classic, sparks-flying Tarantino … The start of a new direction for this relentlessly inventive director.Review quote:The rollicking debut novel by Quentin Tarantino is a seamless, seamy blend of fact and fictionReview quote:The rat-a-tat pace of a screenplay … Tarantino”s concern here is world-building, luxuriating in an era and a genre that he is clearly fascinated by … with undeniable flairReview quote:This book boasts some tremendous scenes, with magical dialogue, that I wouldn”t have missed for the worldBiographical note:QUENTIN TARANTINO was born in 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee. He is the writer-director of nine feature films, the winner of two Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay, and the author of the novel ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD. CINEMA SPECULATION is his first work of nonfiction.Review quote: previous work:In the seventies, movie novelizations were the first adult books I grew up reading. And to this day I have a tremendous amount of affection for the genre. So as a movie-novelization aficionado, I”m proud to announce ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD as my contribution to this often marginalized, yet beloved sub-genre in literature. I”m also thrilled to further explore my characters and their world in a literary endeavor that can (hopefully) sit alongside its cinematic counterpart. – QUENTIN TARANTINO