Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

The Deluxe Hardback Edition

Quentin Tarantino

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
09 November 2021

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Thriller & suspense; Westerns

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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.

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"

By: Quentin Tarantino
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 238mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 42mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9781398706118
ISBN 10: 1398706116
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 09 November 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: The Deluxe Hardback Edition

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. * Guardian * The book is a distinct experience - rangier, sexier, bloodier ... Classic, sparks-flying Tarantino ... The start of a new direction for this relentlessly inventive director. * Washington Post * The rollicking debut novel by Quentin Tarantino is a seamless, seamy blend of fact and fiction * The Times * 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 flair * Evening Standard * This book boasts some tremendous scenes, with magical dialogue, that I wouldn't have missed for the world * Daily Telegraph *