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The outsider's insider, poet Bukowski brings the full force of his muscular prose to bear on the vain vagaries of Hollywood as he tells the semi-autobiographical tale of the efforts to turn a screenplay he is writing into a film. But more than a portrait of Hollywood, Bukowski also offers an insight into life in the pre-gentrified Venice, a world of nighttime terrors. A very funny book.
The best book about why LA today is the way it is and looks as it does.
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