Hollywood Mad Dogs - Couverture souple

Shrake, Edwin "Bud"

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1623498821 ISBN 13 : 9781623498825

Editeur : Texas A & M University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Before his death in 2009, legendary Texas author Edwin "Bud" Shrake completed a final novel based on his real-life adventures as a Hollywood screenwriter in the 1970s and '80s. In this new book, we meet screenwriter Richard Swift, who has been lured away from his cushy job at Sports Illustrated to write a movie for Jack Roach, a matinee idol famous for his electric blue eyes, dimpled chin, and a swagger that makes women swoon. As Swift and his new movie star buddy hurtle through days and nights of Hollywood madness, Shrake's crystalline prose purrs like a Lamborghini speeding along the Pacific Coast Highway. There are spies and fake houses, mountains of drugs, weird sex, crimes, and bizarre feuds.

In Hollywood Mad Dogs, Shrake deftly satirizes a world where a screenwriter is supplied with a bag of cocaine and given a week to write a script, a star demands that a pet cat be his sidekick on the trail, and two competing box office titans square off on a golf course, "each of them armed with a putter."

This rollicking new novel, discovered among Shrake's literary papers at the Wittliff Collections, provides a hilarious and insightful look at the Hollywood meat grinder. It is a story only Bud Shrake could tell, and it is a worthy addition to the author's celebrated career, which includes some of the most highly praised novels written by a Texan.

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À propos de l?auteur

EDWIN "BUD" SHRAKE (1931-2009), dubbed "lion of Texas letters" by the Austin American-Statesman, was a member of the Texas Film Hall of Fame and a recipient of the Lon Tinkle Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Texas Institute of Letters. He was a founding member of Mad Dog, Inc., a notoriously unruly and irreverent gathering of writers. A screenwriter with credits including Tom Horn (Steve McQueen), Kid Blue (Dennis Hopper), and Songwriter (Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson), Shrake was also the author of Blessed McGill and Strange Peaches.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Texas A & M University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1623498821
• ISBN 13: 9781623498825
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible