Download or read book Playland written by John Gregory Dunne and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-05-02 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critically acclaimed best-seller set in the glamorous, gangster-dominated Hollywood of the 1940s tells the story of Blue Tyler, a child star who disappears from Hollywood and becomes a bag lady in New York City.