In a novel filled with his signatures -- nerve-shattering suspense, crackling dialogue, scathing wit -- Elmore Leonard proves once again why he sets the standard against which all other crime novels are measured. In Get Shorty, he takes a mobster to Hollywood, where the women are gorgeous, the men are corrupt, and making it big isn't all that different from making your bones: you gotta know who to pitch, who to hit, and how to knock 'em dead.
Charged with misconduct in a high-profile solicitation of murder case, Scully is forced to resign from the LAPD of face criminal prosecution. His wife Alexa leaves him, seeking a divorce for his alleged dalliance with the accused in the case, a well-known Hollywood actress. His son, Chooch, horrified by these events, won't speak to him.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 14 August 2011
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Hollywood
Hollywood is a 1989 novel by Charles Bukowski which fictionalizes his experiences surrounding the film Barfly. This book traces the experience of the fictional screenwriter Chinaski from his writing of the screenplay through to its completion. He is actively involved only as screenplay writer. Bukowski did enjoy a brief cameo in the film itself, as one of the many barflies.
Singer and actress Lisse Roman seems to have it all -- beauty, brains, wealth, and success -- at least until her fourth marriage falls apart. Things get worse when Lisse's 19-year-old daughter, Nicci -- about to marry a man she's not sure she loves -- becomes the target of a ruthless kidnapper. Then there's Taylor, a onetime actress who is married to Lawrence Singer, one of Hollywood's most respected and influential producers.
Tom Bedford is living alone in the isolated wilds of Montana. Having distanced himself from his own troubled past, he rarely sees his ex-wife, and his son, Danny, is away in Iraq and hasn't spoken to him for years. Tom hasn't always been so removed from society. As a boy, his mother was a meteoric rising star in the glitzy, enchanted world of 1960s Hollywood. There, she fell in love with the suave Ray Montane, who played young Tom's courageous onscreen hero, Red McGraw, the fastest draw around. Tommy and his mother lived in a glamorous, Hollywood version of the Wild West.
