THE DELUXE HARDBACK EDITION FEATURING NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN PHOTOS,
BONUS MATERIAL & AN EXCLUSIVE BOUNTY LAW SCRIPT BY QUENTIN
TARANTINO 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. The sunlit studio back lots and the dark
watering holes of Hollywood are the setting for this audacious,
hilarious, disturbing novel about life in the movie colony, circa
1969. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood tells the story of washed-up
actor Rick Dalton. Once Rick had his own television series, a
famous western called "Bounty Law." But "it ain't been that time in
a long time" and now Rick's only regular parts are as the heavy,
ready to be bested by whichever young "swingin' dick" the networks
want to make a new star out of come pilot season. When a talent
agent approaches Rick about starring in Italian Westerns
("Eye-talian Westerns"?), it only ignites a new crisis of
confidence for the perpetually insecure actor. And then there's
Rick's stunt double, Cliff Booth, a war hero who killed more
Japanese soldiers during the Second World War than any other
American, and who never thought he'd make it back home. If Rick's
career has stalled, Cliff's has flamed out. Already living under a
cloud of suspicion after the strange death of his wife at sea,
Cliff makes the mistake of picking the wrong fight on set, and is
soon reduced to the status of Rick's full-time gofer. Right next
door to Rick's still glamourous Benedict Canyon home ("the house
that Bounty Law built") some Hollywood dreams are coming true, and
these dreams belong to Sharon Tate. Not only is she Mrs. Roman
Polanski - married to the only true rock star director - but Sharon
is fast becoming a star in her own right, living life on the
upswing in a tough town. Only a few miles away, in the desert
around Chatsworth, lives a different kind of dreamer. Charles
Manson is an ex-con who has spellbound a group of hippie misfits
living with him in squalor on an old "movie ranch." Little do his
young followers know to what degree Charlie himself is an industry
striver, more desperate for Columbia Records and Tapes's attentions
than for the revolution he preaches. These indelible characters -
and many more: an acting child prodigy beaming with hope; a
booze-drenched former A-lister who's lost it all - occupy a
vanished world from not so long ago that is brought to brilliant
life in these pages. Here is 1969, the music, the cars, the movies
and TV shows. And 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. FEATURING NEW PHOTOS AND BONUS MATERIAL:
- Two color inserts featuring never-before-seen photos from the set
and posters and other memorabilia from Rick Dalton's career - An
original, exclusive script for a Bounty Law episode by Quentin
Tarantino titled "Incident at Inez" - A Mad Magazine parody of
Bounty Law titled "Lousy Law: Loser's Last Ride"
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