# Hollywood - Paperback

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by **Charles Bukowski** (Author)

**From iconic tortured artist/everyman Charles Bukowski, _Hollywood_ is the fictionalization of his experience adapting his novel _Barfly_ into a movie by the same name.**

Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's alter-ego, is pushed to translate a semi-autobiographical book into a screenplay for John Pinchot. He reluctantly agrees, and is thrust into the otherworld called Hollywood, with its parade of eccentric and maddening characters: producers, artists, actors and actresses, film executives and journalists. In this world, the artistry of books and film is lost to the dollar, and Chinaski struggles to keep his footing in the tangle of cons that comprise movie making.

_Hollywood_ is Dirty Old Man Bukowski at his most lucid. It overflows with curses, sex, and alcohol. And through it all, or from it all, Bukowski finds flashes of truth about the human condition.

### Back Jacket

Hank and his wife, Sarah, agree to write a screenplay, and encounter the strange world of the movie industry.

**Number of Pages:** 248

**Dimensions:** 0.65 x 8.92 x 5.94 IN

**Publication Date:** May 31, 2002

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