Buy now to get the main key ideas from Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2021), Quentin Tarantino's debut novel, follows the characters Rick Dalton, an actor who feels like he is washed up; Cliff Booth, a stuntman who has never had a problem taking away someone else's life; Sharon Tate, who left Texas to become a movie star; and Charles Manson, the leader of a cult of hippies who wants nothing more than to make it in the music industry. Although their lives may be intertwined in strange and subtle ways, they each have their own peculiar place in Tarantino's alternative Hollywood history.