Adventures in the Screen Trade

A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting

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by William Goldman

Type

Stories

Subject

Studio > Hollywood

Keywords

Hollywood, scriptwriting, 1970s

Publishing date

1989

Publisher

Grand Central Publishing

1st publishing

1983

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 608 pages
5 ½ x 8 inches (14 x 20.5 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-446-39117-4
978-0-446-39117-7

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Book Presentation:
Enter Hollywood's inner sanctums in this gosippy and honest book, named one the top 100 film books of all time by The Hollywood Reporter, by the Academy Award-winning screenwriter and bestselling author of The Primcess Bride.

No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the bestselling author of The Princess Bride, Marathon Man, Tinsel, Boys and Girls Together, and other novels, Goldman now takes you behind the scenes for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men, and other films . . . .into the plush offices of Hollywood producers . . ..into the working lives of acting greats such as Redford, Olivier, Newman, and Hoffman...and into his own professional experiences and creative thought processes in the crafting of screenplays. You get a firsthand look at why and how films get made and what elements make a good screenplay. Says columnist Liz Smith, "You'll be fascinated.."

Press Reviews:
"[This] is that big, sad, funny, incisive, revelatory, gossipy, perception-forming book about Hollywood that publishers have been promoting for years -- and now the real thing is finally here."―St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"A deliciously honest book...Goldman deserves a special Read of the Year award."―The Plain Dealer (Cleavland)

See the publisher website: Grand Central Publishing