{"product_id":"b07qspplqq","title":"The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the  New York Times  bestselling author of  Fifth Avenue, Five A.M . and  Fosse  comes the revelatory account of the making of a modern American masterpiece\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChinatown  is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema. Its twist ending is the most notorious in American film and its closing line of dialogue the most haunting. Here for the first time is the incredible true story of its making.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Sam Wasson's telling, it becomes the defining story of the most colorful characters in the most colorful period of Hollywood history. Here is Jack Nicholson at the height of his powers, as compelling a movie star as there has ever been, embarking on his great, doomed love affair with Anjelica Huston. Here is director Roman Polanski, both predator and prey, haunted by the savage death of his wife, returning to Los Angeles, the scene of the crime, where the seeds of his own self-destruction are quickly planted. Here is the fevered dealmaking of The Kid Robert Evans, the most consummate of producers. Here too is Robert Towne's fabled script, widely considered the greatest original screenplay ever written. Wasson for the first time peels off layers of myth to provide the true account of its creation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLooming over the story of this classic movie is the imminent eclipse of the '70s filmmaker-friendly studios as they gave way to the corporate Hollywood we know today. In telling that larger story,  The Big Goodbye  will take its place alongside classics like  Easy Riders, Raging Bulls  and  The Devil's Candy  as one of the great movie-world books ever written.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for Sam Wasson:\u003cbr\u003e\nWasson is a canny chronicler of old Hollywood and its outsize personalities...More than that, he understands that style matters, and, like his subjects, he has a flair for it. -  The New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\nSam Wasson is a fabulous social historian because he finds meaning in situations and stories that would otherwise be forgotten if he didn't sleuth them out, lovingly. -  Hilton Als\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":52828379087064,"sku":"YSL42539","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0835\/3356\/2072\/files\/81A7_KwSuEL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793176743","url":"https:\/\/www.bookmebay.com\/products\/b07qspplqq","provider":"BookMebay","version":"1.0","type":"link"}