The Hollywood Trilogy: A Couple of Comedians/The True Story of Jody McKeegan/Turnaround

Don Carpenter wrote about Hollywood like no one else. Hollywood Trilogy collects, for the first time, Carpenter's most significant Hollywood novels--A Couple of Comedians, The Turnaround and The True Life Story of Jody McKeegan--into 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. Carpenter's characters occupy every facet of Hollywood--there are naïve 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 Carpenter's trademarks.

Following the Spring 2014 publication of Friday at Enrico's, Carpenter's forgotten novel, finished and championed by Jonathan Lethem, interest in Carpenter's work is at an all time high. Hollywood Trilogy will introduce readers to an entirely new facet of Carpenter's work, just waiting to be discovered by a contemporary audience.

Author: Don Carpenter
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: 09/09/2014
Pages: 533
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.50d
ISBN13: 9781619023420
ISBN10: 1619023423
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary

About the Author
Don Carpenter was born in Berkeley in 1932. Raised in Portland, he enlisted in the air force and returned to the bay area at the end of his service. He published ten novels during his lifetime, and he had a successful career as a screenwriter, living for long periods in Hollywood. After years of poor health, he committed suicide in Mill Valley in 1995.