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Unabridged
ISBN
9781483050379

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In 1937 F. Scott Fitzgerald was a troubled, uncertain man whose literary success was long over. In poor health, with his wife consigned to a mental asylum and his finances in ruins, he struggled to make a new start as a screenwriter in Hollywood. By December of 1940, he would be dead of a heart attack.Those last three years of Fitzgerald's life, often obscured by the legend of his earlier Jazz Age glamour, are the focus of Stewart O'Nan's gorgeously and gracefully written novel. With flashbacks to key moments from Fitzgerald's past, the story follows him as he arrives on the MGM lot, falls in love with brassy gossip columnist Sheilah Graham, begins work on The Last Tycoon, and tries to maintain a semblance of family life with the absent Zelda and daughter Scottie.Fitzgerald's orbit of literary fame and the golden age of Hollywood is brought vividly to life through the novel's romantic cast of characters, from Dorothy Parker and Ernest Hemingway to Humphrey Bogart. A sympathetic and deeply personal portrait of a flawed man who never gave up, even as his every wish and hope seemed thwarted, West of Sunset confirms O'Nan as "possibly our best working novelist" (Salon).

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Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1483050378
ISBN-13
9781483050379
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208695486

Product Key Features

Publication Year
2015
Topic
Literary, Biographical, Historical
Book Title
West of Sunset : a Novel
Language
English
Genre
Fiction
Author
Stewart O'nan
Format
Compact Disc

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Item Length
5.7in
Item Width
5.2in

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Trade
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O'Nan is an incredibly versatile and charming writer. Thisnovel, which imagines F. Scott Fitzgerald's troubled time in Hollywood (withcameos by Dorothy Parker, Bogie, and Hemingway), takes up (like much of O'Nan'swork) that essential conundrum of grace struggling with paucity. One brilliantAmerican writer meditating on another--what's not to love?, I'll direct my enthusiasm for West of Sunset to writers who revere Fitzgerald's short story'Babylon Revisited.' Stewart O'Nan captures Fitzgerald's mood of spiritualreflection, without trying to imitate Fitzgerald's voice. This book is an inoculationagainst self-pity. It's not a mock Fitzgerald novel but an original portrait ofa writer struggling to keep his dignity while trying to make a living. I don'tdoubt the biographical details, but it's a waste of the book to check itagainst fidelity to fact; if Fitzgerald wasn't friendly with Humphrey Bogartand Mayo Methot in 1939, he is now. It's one of the best books I've read inyears and it deserves a cheering crowd., Christopher Lane's narration of this fascinating audiobook is elegant and engrossing. His sonorous voice is ideal for O'Nan's rich imagining of F. Scott Fitzgerald's last years in Hollywood. With kindness and compassion, Lane entreats the listener to empathize with Fitzgerald as he copes with personal and professional trials...Lane's performance is as effective as O'Nan's storytelling. Conversations with notables such as Hemingway and Bogart come across as believable, and descriptions of setting and character quirks are vivid and three-dimensional. This audiobook is outstanding--one that might inspire you to visit the work of the great Fitzgerald himself once again. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award., O'Nan places Scott back at center stage, with a sympathetic portrayal of a troubledgenius, a kind but deeply flawed man trying to stay on the wagon while keepingthe peace between his unstable wife and their teenage daughter...O'Nanhas masterfully re-created the feel and ambience of the Hollywood studio systemin the late 1930s...An insightful glimpse into a sad period inFitzgerald's life., O'Nan--the king of the quotidian--has changed his brush stroke and given us a picture of another American master, F. Scott Fitzgerald, in the last years of his life...An amazing book., [The] grim yet undeniably fascinating last act of Fitzgerald's life is the subject of Stewart O'Nan's gorgeous new novel, West of Sunset ... West of Sunset is a pretty fine Hollywood novel, too, but it's an even finer novel about a great writer's determination to keep trying to do his best work., [A] beautifully written historical novel...whichfollows Fitzgerald's stint as a screenwriter during the 1930s, captures thatera of Hollywood well, offering juicy scenes with Humphrey Bogart, DorothyParker, Ernest Hemingway, and other Fitzgerald friends and hangers-on, whilelending witty dialogue to his affair with gossip columnist Sheilah Graham, adoomed romance that's worthy of a classic film., O'Nan taps into primary-source material on Fitzgerald to craft a realistic piece of historical fiction...Fitzgerald comes across as a haunting, multifaceted, sympathetic character...The slide into drugs, alcoholism, and the heart disease that shortened his life is tragic to behold; Fitzgerald fans will mourn his loss all over again., O'Nan, an accomplished, award-winning writer who has clearly done his biographical homework, polishes this saga to a seductive sheen, populates it with persuasive incarnations of Dorothy Parker, Humphrey Bogart, Ernest Hemingway, and others, and takes us to a very dark place indeed., Nan, in understated prose, renders a heartbreaking portrait of an artist soldiering on in the face of personal and professional ruin...O'Nan's convincing characterization of a man burdened by guilt and struggling to hold onto his dignity is, at once, a moving testament to grace under pressure and an intimate look at a legend., An achingly nuanced love story and one of the bestbiographical novels to come along in years. O'Nan's great achievement here is in so convincingly inhabiting thecharacter of Scott Fitzgerald and of the people surrounding him during hisdescent into the clarifying depths of 1930s Hollywood., Mesmerizing and haunting...The strings O'Nan pulls so deftly are really the mark of a consummate pro, along the lines of Fitzgerald himself...lovingly and believably, the manner in which a writer works--thinks, processes, assimilates, envies--is given life.
Number of Volumes
8 Vols.
Edition Description
Unabridged Edition

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