Hollywood Mad Dogs
  • Published:
    Dec-2020
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    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    192
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Before 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 Sports Illustrated to 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.

In Hollywood Mad Dogs, 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.” 

This 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.
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    • First Edition
    • Dec-2020
    • Texas A&M University Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1623498821
    • ISBN13: 9781623498825
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    • Dec-2020
    • Texas A&M University Press
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 162349883X
    • ISBN13: 9781623498832
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    • Dec-2020
    • Texas A&M University Press
    • eBook (Kindle)



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