u003cpu003eu003cbu003eQuentin Tarantino's long-awaited first work of fiction - at once hilarious, delicious, and brutal - is the always surprising, sometimesu003c/bu003e u003cbu003eshocking new novel based on his Academy Award-winning film.u003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbu003eu003cbru003e RICK DALTONu003c/bu003e - Once he had his own TV series, but now Rick's 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?u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbu003eCLIFF BOOTHu003c/bu003e - Rick's stunt double, and the most infamous man on any movie set because he's the only one there who might have gotten away with murder . . .u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbu003eSHARON TATEu003c/bu003e - She left Texas to chase a movie-star dream, and found it. Sharon's salad days are now spent on Cielo Drive, high in the Hollywood Hills.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbu003eCHARLES MANSONu003c/bu003e - The ex-con's got a bunch of zonked-out hippies thinking he's their spiritual leader, but he'd trade it all to be a rock 'n' roll star.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003ciu003eu003cbu003eHOLLYWOOD 1969 - YOU SHOULDA BEEN THEREu003c/bu003eu003c/iu003eu003c/pu003e
