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'What will you do?'
'Oh, hell, I'll write a novel about writing the screenplay and making the movie.'
'What are you going to call it?'
'Hollywood.'

Henry Chinaski has a penchant for booze, women and horse-racing. On his precarious journey from poet to screenwriter he encounters a host of well-known stars and lays bare the absurdity and egotism of the film industry. Poetic, sharp and dangerous, Hollywood - Bukowski's fictionalisation of his experiences making the film Barfly - explores the many dark shadows to be found in the neon-soaked glare of Hollywood's limelight.



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No other book gets as close to the corrupt heart of American movie-making * * Guardian * *
A literary immortal * * Time * *
Bukowski's voice is insistent and affirming but it also has the humble durability of someone who won't stay down . . . His stories help keep people alive * * Independent * *
A laureate of American low life * * Time * *
Full of entertaining vignettes of celebrities * * The Times * *

Hollywood

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    A Paperback / softback by Charles Bukowski, Howard Sounes

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      Publisher Canongate Canons
      Published 4 July 2019
      ISBN-13 9781786891679
      978-1786891679
      ISBN-10 1786891670
      Also in:
      Fiction Contemporary Fiction Books by Charles Bukowski

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      'What will you do?'
      'Oh, hell, I'll write a novel about writing the screenplay and making the movie.'
      'What are you going to call it?'
      'Hollywood.'

      Henry Chinaski has a penchant for booze, women and horse-racing. On his precarious journey from poet to screenwriter he encounters a host of well-known stars and lays bare the absurdity and egotism of the film industry. Poetic, sharp and dangerous, Hollywood - Bukowski's fictionalisation of his experiences making the film Barfly - explores the many dark shadows to be found in the neon-soaked glare of Hollywood's limelight.



      Trade Review
      No other book gets as close to the corrupt heart of American movie-making * * Guardian * *
      A literary immortal * * Time * *
      Bukowski's voice is insistent and affirming but it also has the humble durability of someone who won't stay down . . . His stories help keep people alive * * Independent * *
      A laureate of American low life * * Time * *
      Full of entertaining vignettes of celebrities * * The Times * *

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