num_pages: 533
description: Don Carpenter wrote about Hollywood like no one else. The Hollywood Trilogy collects for the first time Carpenters most significant Hollywood novelsA Couple of Comedians Turnaround and The True Life Story of Jody McKeeganinto a single volume. Here readers will find the jungle of B-movie Hollywood with no attempt to dress up the rawness and vulgarity of this glamorous town. Carpenters characters occupy every facet of Hollywoodthere are nave and shy young men trying to break into the business one-picture wonders comedy duos beautiful starlets and middle-aged moguls wondering how exactly they got where they are. All are drawn with the wit pace and above all the authenticity that were Don Carpenters trademarks.Following the Spring 2014 publication of Friday at Enricos Carpenters forgotten novel finished and championed by Jonathan Lethem interest in Carpenters work is at an all-time high. The Hollywood Trilogy will introduce readers to an entirely new facet of Carpenters work just waiting to be discovered by a contemporary audience.
language: English
title: The Hollywood Trilogy: A Couple of Comedians, The True Story of Jody McKeegan, and Turnaround
publisher: Counterpoint