{"product_id":"once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-the-deluxe-hardcover-9780063112568","title":"Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: The Deluxe Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeaturing never-before-seen photos from the set and posters and other memorabilia from Rick Dalton's career, an original, exclusive script for a \u003cem\u003eBounty Law\u003c\/em\u003e episode by Quentin Tarantino titled \"Incident at Inez\" and a \u003cem\u003eMad Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e parody of \u003cem\u003eBounty Law\u003c\/em\u003e titled \"Lousy Law: Loser's Last Ride\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eQuentin 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of washed-up actor Rick Dalton. Once Rick had his own television series, a famous western called \u003cem\u003eBounty Law.\u003c\/em\u003e But \"it ain't been that\u003cem\u003e time\u003c\/em\u003e in a long \u003cem\u003etime\u003c\/em\u003e\" 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 (\"\u003cem\u003eEye\u003c\/em\u003e-talian Westerns\"?), it only ignites a new crisis of confidence for the perpetually insecure actor. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRight next door to Rick's still glamourous Benedict Canyon home (\"the house that \u003cem\u003eBounty Law\u003c\/em\u003e built\") some Hollywood dreams \u003cem\u003eare \u003c\/em\u003ecoming true, and these dreams belong to Sharon Tate. Not only is she Mrs. Roman Polanski--married to the only\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003etrue \u003cem\u003erock star director\u003c\/em\u003e--but Sharon is fast becoming a star in her own right, living life on the upswing in a tough town. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese 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 \u003cem\u003eis\u003c\/em\u003e 1969, the music, the cars, the movies and TV shows. And here \u003cem\u003eis\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTarantino, Quentin:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eWith his vibrant imagination and dedication to richly layered storytelling Quentin Tarantino is one of the most celebrated filmmakers of his generation. He made his directorial debut in 1992 with RESERVOIR DOGS, and then co-wrote, directed and starred in one of his most beloved films, PULP FICTION, which won his first Oscar(R) for Best Screenplay. Followed by the highly acclaimed films JACKIE BROWN, KILL BILL VOL. 1 and VOL. 2, and DEATH PROOF, Tarantino then released his World War II epic, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, DJANGO UNCHAINED (which won his second Oscar(R) for Best Screenplay), and the HATEFUL EIGHT. Tarantino's most recent film, ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD, was nominated for five Golden Globes, ten BAFTAS, and ten Academy Award nominations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50705602052370,"sku":"9780063112568","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_013a6965-3701-47d7-8534-aa11e10b9d25.jpg?v=1734487948","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-the-deluxe-hardcover-9780063112568","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}