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Hollywood Mad Dogs: A Novel
By (author) Edwin ""Bud"" Shrake
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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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Publisher | Texas A & M University Press
Published date | 7 Dec 2020
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 192
Dimensions | 235 x 156 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 360g
ISBN | 978-1-6234-9882-5
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BISAC | fiction / humorous
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