West of sunset
By: Stewart O'Nan
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Crows Nest NSW
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781925266559
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Fiction; Novelists; American Authors; History
Other titles: West of sunset : a novel of Hollywood
Description: A rich, sometimes heartbreaking novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald's last years in Hollywood. In 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a troubled, uncertain man whose literary success was long behind him. In poor health, with his wife consigned to a mental asylum and his finances in ruin, he struggled to make a new start as a screenwriter in Hollywood. The 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 heartfelt new 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 their 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.
Notes: "F. Scott Fitzgerald's last chance at love"--Cover.