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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Flatiron Books
ISBN-10
1250301823
ISBN-13
9781250301826
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5038810439
Product Key Features
Book Title
Big Goodbye : Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Topic
Film / General, Film / Genres / Crime, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Film / History & Criticism
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Performing Arts, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2019-045207
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"The wondrous thing about Sam Wasson's new book is that it feels both necessary and inevitable - as if Chinatown couldn't (or shouldn't) exist without it. Reading The Big Goodbye, something strange happens: it acquires the historical, dizzying, incestuous gravitas of the film itself. Wasson has a habit of making vividly thematic, compassionately revelatory art." - Bruce Wagner , author of Force Majeure and I Met Someone "Sam Wasson has written a smart, human and utterly engaging book about an iconic American movie. With its rich depiction of 1970s Hollywood, The Big Goodbye is grounded in marvelous reportorial detail and moves with novelistic urgency." - Julie Salamon , author of The Devil's Candy and An Innocent Bystander, "The wondrous thing about Sam Wasson's new book is that it feels both necessary and inevitable - as if Chinatown couldn't (or shouldn't) exist without it. Reading The Big Goodbye, something strange happens: it acquires the historical, dizzying, incestuous gravitas of the film itself. Wasson has a habit of making vividly thematic, compassionately revelatory art." - Bruce Wagner , author of Force Majeure and I Met Someone "Sam Wasson has written a smart, human and utterly engaging book about an iconic American movie. With its rich depiction of 1970s Hollywood, The Big Goodbye is grounded in marvelous reportorial detail and moves with novelistic urgency." - Julie Salamon , author of The Devil's Candy and An Innocent Bystander "A fascinating dive into Hollywood" -- Maureen Dowd, New York Times " Chinatown (1974) was a watershed moment in a colorful era of American filmmaking. Wasson looks past the myth to tell the true story of its making." -- USA Today , "Winter Reading Guide: This Season's Must-Read Books" "If you love Chinatown, then you'll love The Big Goodbye-- and it's good reading for any American cinema buff." -- Kirkus Reviews "Inimitable Wasson...argues convincingly that Chinatown was one of the last great Hollywood films... this portrait of a neonoir classic will cast a spell over cinephiles." -- Library Journal, starred review, "The wondrous thing about Sam Wasson's new book is that it feels both necessary and inevitable - as if Chinatown couldn't (or shouldn't) exist without it. Reading The Big Goodbye, something strange happens: it acquires the historical, dizzying, incestuous gravitas of the film itself. Wasson has a habit of making vividly thematic, compassionately revelatory art." - Bruce Wagner , author of Force Majeure and I Met Someone "Sam Wasson has written a smart, human and utterly engaging book about an iconic American movie. With its rich depiction of 1970s Hollywood, The Big Goodbye is grounded in marvelous reportorial detail and moves with novelistic urgency." - Julie Salamon , author of The Devil's Candy and An Innocent Bystander "A fascinating dive into Hollywood" -- Maureen Dowd, New York Times " Chinatown (1974) was a watershed moment in a colorful era of American filmmaking. Wasson looks past the myth to tell the true story of its making." -- USA Today , "Winter Reading Guide: This Season's Must-Read Books" "If you love Chinatown, then you'll love The Big Goodbye-- and it's good reading for any American cinema buff." -- Kirkus Reviews "Inimitable Wasson... argues convincingly that Chinatown was one of the last great Hollywood films... this portrait of a neonoir classic will a spell over cinephiles." -- Library Journal, starred review
Dewey Decimal
791.4372
Synopsis
From the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M . and Fosse comes the revelatory account of the making of a modern American masterpiece. Chinatown is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema. Its twist ending is the most notorious in American film and its closing line of dialogue the most haunting. Here for the first time is the incredible true story of its making. In Sam Wasson's telling, it becomes the defining story of the most colorful characters in the most colorful period of Hollywood history. Here is Jack Nicholson at the height of his powers, as compelling a movie star as there has ever been, embarking on his great, doomed love affair with Anjelica Huston. Here is director Roman Polanski, both predator and prey, haunted by the savage death of his wife, returning to Los Angeles, the scene of the crime, where the seeds of his own self-destruction are quickly planted. Here is the fevered dealmaking of "The Kid" Robert Evans, the most consummate of producers. Here too is Robert Towne's fabled script, widely considered the greatest original screenplay ever written. Wasson for the first time peels off layers of myth to provide the true account of its creation. Looming over the story of this classic movie is the imminent eclipse of the '70s filmmaker-friendly studios as they gave way to the corporate Hollywood we know today. In telling that larger story, The Big Goodbye will take its place alongside classics like Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and The Devil's Candy as one of the great movie-world books ever written. Praise for Sam Wasson: "Wasson is a canny chronicler of old Hollywood and its outsize personalities...More than that, he understands that style matters, and, like his subjects, he has a flair for it." - The New Yorker "Sam Wasson is a fabulous social historian because he finds meaning in situations and stories that would otherwise be forgotten if he didn't sleuth them out, lovingly." - Hilton Als, From the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M . and Fosse comes the revelatory account of the making of a modern American masterpiece Chinatown is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema. Its twist ending is the most notorious in American film and its closing line of dialogue the most haunting. Here for the first time is the incredible true story of its making. In Sam Wasson's telling, it becomes the defining story of the most colorful characters in the most colorful period of Hollywood history. Here is Jack Nicholson at the height of his powers, as compelling a movie star as there has ever been, embarking on his great, doomed love affair with Anjelica Huston. Here is director Roman Polanski, both predator and prey, haunted by the savage death of his wife, returning to Los Angeles, the scene of the crime, where the seeds of his own self-destruction are quickly planted. Here is the fevered dealmaking of "The Kid" Robert Evans, the most consummate of producers. Here too is Robert Towne's fabled script, widely considered the greatest original screenplay ever written. Wasson for the first time peels off layers of myth to provide the true account of its creation. Looming over the story of this classic movie is the imminent eclipse of the '70s filmmaker-friendly studios as they gave way to the corporate Hollywood we know today. In telling that larger story, The Big Goodbye will take its place alongside classics like Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and The Devil's Candy as one of the great movie-world books ever written. Praise for Sam Wasson: "Wasson is a canny chronicler of old Hollywood and its outsize personalities...More than that, he understands that style matters, and, like his subjects, he has a flair for it." - The New Yorker "Sam Wasson is a fabulous social historian because he finds meaning in situations and stories that would otherwise be forgotten if he didn't sleuth them out, lovingly." - Hilton Als
LC Classification Number
PN1997.C46447W37
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