{"product_id":"hollywood-mad-dogs-9781623498825","title":"Hollywood Mad Dogs","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore his death in 2009, legendary Texas author Edwin \"Bud\" Shrake completed a final novel based on his real-life adventures as a Hollywood screenwriter in the 1970s and '80s. In this new book, we meet screenwriter Richard Swift, who has been lured away from his cushy job at \u003ci\u003eSports Illustrated \u003c\/i\u003eto write a movie for Jack Roach, a matinee idol famous for his electric blue eyes, dimpled chin, and a swagger that makes women swoon. As Swift and his new movie star buddy hurtle through days and nights of Hollywood madness, Shrake's crystalline prose purrs like a Lamborghini speeding along the Pacific Coast Highway. There are spies and fake houses, mountains of drugs, weird sex, crimes, and bizarre feuds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHollywood Mad Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e, Shrake deftly satirizes a world where a screenwriter is supplied with a bag of cocaine and given a week to write a script, a star demands that a pet cat be his sidekick on the trail, and two competing box office titans square off on a golf course, \"each of them armed with a putter.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis rollicking new novel, discovered among Shrake's literary papers at the Wittliff Collections, provides a hilarious and insightful look at the Hollywood meat grinder. It is a story only Bud Shrake could tell, and it is a worthy addition to the author's celebrated career, which includes some of the most highly praised novels written by a Texan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Texas A\u0026amp;M University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/07\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781623498825\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d","brand":"Edwin Bud Shrake","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38023402487989,"sku":"9781623498825","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_fe61f646-bdc9-4fdf-8f07-20b9b3ec4451.jpg?v=1609184461","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/hollywood-mad-dogs-9781623498825","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}