Hollywood novel

Hollywood novel

A Hollywood novel is a novel that takes the Southern California motion picture industry as its setting and often its subject. Examples of Hollywood novels include "The Day of the Locust" by Nathanael West, "What Makes Sammy Run" by Budd Schulberg, "The Last Tycoon" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "After Many A Summer Dies the Swan" by Aldous Huxley, "Inside Daisy Clover" by Gavin Lambert, "The Deer Park" by Norman Mailer, "I Should Have Stayed Home" by Horace McCoy, Michael Tolkin's "The Player" and "The Return of the Player", Joan Didion's "Play It As It Lays", "StarCrossed Hearts" by Anne Carter, etc. Novels set in Los Angeles but not primarily about the movie business and its effect on movie people and the public are not properly called Hollywood novels.

"See also:"
*melodrama
*biopic
*novel


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