nQuentin Tarantinos long-awaited first work of fiction -- at once hilarious, delicious, and brutal -- is the always surprising, sometimes shocking new novel based on his Academy Award- winning film.RICK DALTON - Once he had his own TV series, but now Ricks a washed-up villain-of-the week drowning his sorrows in whiskey sours. Will a phone call from Rome save his fate or seal it?CLIFF BOOTH - Ricks stunt double, and the most infamous man on any movie set because hes the only one there who might have gotten away with murder. . . .SHARON TATE - She left Texas to chase a movie-star dream, and found it. Sharons salad days are now spent on Cielo Drive, high in the Hollywood Hills.CHARLES MANSON - The ex-cons got a bunch of zonked-out hippies thinking hes their spiritual leader, but hed trade it all to be a rock n roll star.HOLLYWOOD 1969 - YOU SHOULDA BEEN THERE nThe Instant #1 New York Times bestsellerQuentin Tarantinos long-awaited first work of fiction -- at once hilarious, delicious, and brutal -- is the always surprising, sometimes shocking new novel based on his Academy Award- winning film.RICK DALTON - Once he had his own TV series, but now Ricks a washed-up villain-of-the week drowning his sorrows in whiskey sours. Will a phone call from Rome save his fate or seal it?CLIFF BOOTH - Ricks stunt double, and the most infamous man on any movie set because hes the only one there who might have gotten away with murder. . . .SHARON TATE - She left Texas to chase a movie-star dream, and found it. Sharons salad days are now spent on Cielo Drive, high in the Hollywood Hills.CHARLES MANSON - The ex-cons got a bunch of zonked-out hippies thinking hes their spiritual leader, but hed trade it all to be a rock n roll star.HOLLYWOOD 1969 - YOU SHOULDA BEEN THERE nThe Instant #1 New York Times bestsellerQuentin Tarantinos long-awaited first work of fiction -- at once hilarious, delicious, and brutal -- is the always surprising, sometimes shocking new novel based on his Academy Award- winning film.RICK DALTON - Once he had his own TV series, but now Ricks a washed-up villain-of-the week drowning his sorrows in whiskey sours. Will a phone call from Rome save his fate or seal it?CLIFF BOOTH - Ricks stunt double, and the most infamous man on any movie set because hes the only one there who might have gotten away with murder. . . .SHARON TATE - She left Texas to chase a movie-star dream, and found it. Sharons salad days are now spent on Cielo Dr