He also wrote three Hollywood novels between 1975 and 1981.

The result is "one of the four best Hollywood novels ever written."

Another Hollywood novel followed in 1994, "Delusions of Grandma."

But he might find these minor flaws in a shrewd, entertainingly dark Hollywood novel.

A Hollywood novel by an insider who stirs up a great vat of steaming narcissism and status anxiety.

A Hollywood novel is a novel that takes the Southern California motion picture industry as its setting and often its subject.

"It's All True" has more mileage on its odometer than the usual Hollywood novel.

"It's fair to say that the Hollywood novels made a pleasant read, but nothing more."

He called it "my Hollywood novel".

Last year our reviewer, Janet Maslin, called the book "a shrewd, entertainingly dark Hollywood novel."