Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Tarantino Quentin

#1 New York Times Bestseller"Classic, sparks-flying Tarantino." -Washington PostQuentin Tarantino's debut work of fiction is an audacious, hilarious, disturbing novel about life in the movie colony, circa 1969. This new edition includes a foreword by Walter Kirn.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. 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.

.SHARON TATE-She left Texas to chase a movie-star dream, and found it. 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 got away with murder. . . 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.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.

As the New York Times raves, "Tarantino's first novel is, to borrow a phrase from his oeuvre, a tasty beverage. . . . [He] makes telling a page-turning story look easy, which is the hardest trick of all."