The Golden West: Hollywood Stories

Boston: David R. Godine (A Black Sparrow Book). Fine in Near Fine dj. 2005. 2nd printing. Hardcover. [book is flawless, tight and clean with no discernible wear; the jacket shows just a bit of surface wear, virtually invisible under new archival jacket protector]. A collection of the best writings about Hollywood and the movie business, by a noted novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter, essays and stories ranging "from a novice screenwriter's anxious first impressions (1937-39) to a fifty-year veteran's mellow memoirs (1989). Included is the author's 1971 short novel "West of the Rockies." The Introduction is by John Updike. .