Sharlene Miller is a small town girl dreaming of Hollywood fame and fortune. In her relentless quest for success, she becomes a groupie, a porn star, a television starlet and finally, the cultural icon Sierra - but fame always has its price. Struggling with demons both real and imagined, addicted to drugs and abandoned by her fans, Sierra finds herself moving through coma-induced hallucinations, fairy tale porn films, down rabbit holes of drugs and alcohol, and finally through the looking glass of Hollywood itself.
Drawing from A Star is Born, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Alice in Wonderland, The E! True Hollywood Story, and the lives of Marilyn Monroe, Jane Mansfield, Dorothy Stratten, Sharon Tate, Krysti Lynn, and Savannah, Hollywoodland: An American Fairy Tale revises popular culture's archetypal narratives to create the definitive Hollywood starlet - Sierra.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Drawing from A Star is Born, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Alice in Wonderland, The E! True Hollywood Story, and the lives of Marilyn Monroe, Jane Mansfield, Dorothy Stratten, Sharon Tate, Krysti Lynn, and Savannah, Hollywoodland: An American Fairy Tale revises popular culture's archetypal narratives to create the definitive Hollywood starlet - Sierra.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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