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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
It's the nineteenth century. As America prepares for civil war,
five men living within ninety miles of one another will change the
course of history. The invention and refinement of the repeating
firearm-the precursor to today's automatic weapons-means life in
America and beyond will never be the same again. In this riveting
work of narrative history, veteran reporter John Bainbridge, Jr.
vividly brings to life the five charismatic and idiosyncratic men
at the heart of the story: the huckster and hard-living Samuel
Colt; the cunning former shirt-maker Oliver Winchester; the
constant tinkerer Horace Smith; the resilient and innovative
businessman Daniel Wesson; and the skinny abolitionist Christopher
Spencer. As the men competed ferociously, each trying to corner the
market for repeating weapons, invention and necessity collided in a
perfect storm: America was crashing violently towards furious
sectarianism, irrevocable tensions, and, of course, bloodthirsty
war. Though capable of firing many times without reloading,
astonishingly, the new guns faced a government backlash for using
too much ammunition. Sold directly to soldiers, sometimes just as
they were walking into battle, they quickly became coveted
possessions, both during the Civil War and in the conquering of the
West-and thus America's romance with personal firearms was born.
Wide-ranging and vividly told, this is a gripping story of
tenacity, conviction, innovation, and pure heartless greed.
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