Summary
Charles Bukowski: Hollywood
In this novel, Bukowski, through the situations into which his alter ego Henri Kinaski falls, fictionalized the experience of writing the screenplay and filming the film The Swamp Fly.
In The Swamp Fly, a 1987 film based on Charles Bukowski's screenplay and directed by Barebet Schroeder, Henri Kinaski was portrayed by Mickey Rourke, and Wanda, his lover was played by Faye Dunaway.
In the novel Hollywood, the very experiences of shooting a movie, writing a script, complications on film sets become a parallel novelistic and picaresque adventure, as interesting as the film itself. The breaks between shots are seasoned, Bukowski-style, with rivers of beer, fights, sleepless nights and life on the edge, as well as hanging out with Hollywood stars, actors, musicians and directors.
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