The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood

author: Sam Wasson
name: Wayne
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2020
rating: 5
read at: 2022/02/15
date added: 2022/02/15
shelves: non-fiction
review:
'The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood' by Sam Wasson is a book exploring the making of Chinatown and the characters who made it.

This book follows the creators and star of Chinatown, Roman Polanski, Robert Evans, Robert Towne and Jack Nicholson. The concept, design and ideas and the motivations behind it are all part of the narrative. The struggle to find an ending, the drugs and the friendships made and broken are here too.

This is a nonfiction story that reads like fiction. The prose is that good. I found it a fascinating story about a time and place in Hollywood that we will never see again.


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