Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

"Quentin Tarantino's first novel is, to borrow a phrase from his oeuvre, a tasty beverage. . . He's here to tell a story, in take-it-or-leave-it Elmore Leonard fashion, and to make room along the way to talk about some of the things he cares about - old movies, male camaraderie, revenge and redemption, music and style. . . In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Tarantino makes telling a page-turning story look easy, which is the hardest trick of all." - Dwight Garner, The New York Times

"Classic, sparks-flying Tarantino. . . Tarantino's explosive dialogue, with its blend of streetwise and formal cadences, is almost as effective written down as read aloud. . . Far from being the throwaway artifact it sometimes pretends to be, Tarantino's first novel may even, as he's hinted, herald the start of a new direction for this relentlessly inventive director." - The Washington Post

"Tarantino, celebrated for his screenplays, truly is a literary force, stepping forward as a novelist adept at using an omniscient point of view to powerful effect in a novel driven by its characters' inner lives and smart, witty, and salty dialogue of propulsion and nuance, hilarity and heartbreak. . . . It will also offer a stereoscopic experience for most readers as they envision the characters as played by the movie's cast. . . a doubling that will inspire fanatic comparisons between film and page. But this is a work of literary art in its own right, a novel that, if the movie didn't exist, would captivate readers with its own knowing vision and zestful power." - Donna Seaman, Booklist