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Title	:	West of Sunset
Author	:	Stewart O'Nan
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	January 13th 2015 by Viking
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction

West of Sunset Hardcover | Pages: 304 pages

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A “rich, sometimes heartbreaking” (Dennis Lehane) 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 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 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 in the end, 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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Original Title:	West of Sunset
ISBN:	0670785954 (ISBN13: 9780670785957)
Characters:	F. Scott Fitzgerald

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West of Sunset by Stewart ONan is a 2015 Viking publication. Fans of F. Scott Fitzgerald or those who enjoy tales centered around old Hollywood will find this to be an interesting and poignant read.The story is pretty gloomy, as the last years of Fitzgeralds life in Hollywood is fictionalized. Zelda is in an institution suffering through good and bad days, but mostly unable to cope in the outside world for extended periods of time. Fitzgerald is broke and in desperate need of cash in order to

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." -last line from the novel, 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott FitzgeraldI have never been a fan of F. Scott Fitzgerald, although I admit that I have read only two of his novels.... 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Tender is the Night'. Perhaps it would be fairer to say that I look at the 1920s (the time period Fitzgerald writes about in some of his novels) with distaste and disgust. Other than the introduction of jazz into the

West of Sunset is a reason to stand up, clap heartily and even yell out a few 'brava!' rounds at the end of the last page. I suppose the rest of this review could read 'superlative...superlative...more praise...sorry it had to end...how will even someone as gifted as Stewart O'Nan follow up this one?"I have enjoyed O'Nan's versatility and his almost microscopic attention to character study for 15 years now. I 'discovered' him back around the year 2000 when I was working for the Akron libraries

Full disclosure: I love about 95% of Stewart O'Nan's works, fiction and non-fiction; I think he is a terrific writer and researcher and I'm always eager to read his latest offering. Further disclosure: I'm "Meh" on F. Scott Fitzgerald; in particular, I think "The Great Gatsby" is supremely over-rated.So how would I like O'Nan's novelization of the last few years of Fitzgerald's life in his new book, "West of Sunset"? Well, I loved it! O'Nan really pulled me right into the late 1930s Hollywood

I don't recall exactly how I first heard about this book, but from the second I read the description I've been desperate to read it. I am, like a lot of people, a big fan of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Although I change my mind a lot, The Great Gatsby is the novel I most often list as my favourite of all time, and I very much love Tender Is the Night and This Side of Paradise too. The Fitzgerald myth is also something that fascinates me and, although I've never actually read a biography on the

F. Scott Fitzgerald has been canonized as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. His oeuvre is not that large (for example, compared to rival Ernest Hemingway)--his 44 years on the planet came and went like a flash in the Jazz Age pan, his glamorized life with Zelda mythologized almost more than his solo presence. When I think of Fitzgerald, I think of Gatsby. How not? But O'Nan captures the screenwriting Fitzgerald, the scenarist whose work in Hollywood is largely unnoticed.

I first became aware of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a personality when I read Ernest Hemingways A Moveable Feast, a favorite book of mine. The young Fitzgerald in Paris is a memorable character in that reminiscence, but one seen through the lens of Hemingways acute and possibly jaundiced eye. It was hard even then to reconcile the dissolute and distracted Fitzgerald with the brilliant creator of Gatsby.But it was not Fitzgerald who drew me to West of Sunset; it was ONan. I have loved his books about