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Original Title:	West of Sunset
ISBN:	0670785954 (ISBN13: 9780670785957)
Characters:	F. Scott Fitzgerald

West of Sunset

Stewart O'Nan

Hardcover | Pages: 304 pages

Rating: 3.56 | 2886 Users | 659 Reviews

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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

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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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Gatsby Among the Locusts: Stewart O'Nan's Novel of Fitzgerald in HollywoodA copy of this novel was provided by Viking Adult through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This novel will be published January 13, 2015. "There are no second acts in American lives," F.Scott Fitzgerald, found among his notes to his last, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon. Stewart O'Nan Stewart O'Nan has written a compelling novel of the last years of F. Scott Fitzgerald and his years in

First, a big thanks to Gooodreads FirstReads and the publisher for enabling me to be an early readers.When most of us think of F. Scott Fitzgerald, we remember him as a literary legend: the creator of the Great Gatsby, part of the glittering Scott-and-Zelda duo, full of shimmer and promise.In this latest book, Stewart ONan introduces us to Fitgerald-as-outsider: a poor boy from a rich neighborhood, a scholarship kid at boarding school, a Midwestern in the East, an easterner out West.Daringly, he

I really love this bio , I focuses on the last few years of his life where he is unhealthy , alcoholic who despite his brilliance can't get a job and keep it. His wife was institutionalize ex by this point and it seems his relationship with his daughter was steadily declining. There is not much written that I have seen about this sad point in his life, so I found this to be a fascinating read . Iran honestly it seems like the people from this Time period had crazy drama .... I found this book

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.

Some books you sip and savor. "West of Sunset" is one.Stewart ONans effortless, three-dimensional prose wrapped around the story of F. Scott Fitzgeralds waning, troubled years in Hollywood? It seems like a perfect combination. It is.One O'Nan's epigrams is Fitzgeralds own assertion, There are no second acts in American lives.While theres controversy over that line and precisely what Fitzgerald intended, "West of Sunset" certainly seems to underscore the point in spades (or cocktails).If you want

Sadly, this earnest book reads like a docudrama, and not a convincing one -- and because the subject, F. Scott Fitzgerald, is so well-known, it never reads like a novel either. I've no doubt that O'Nan did copious research, but he would have served readers better by writing a nonfiction book (I've also no doubt that for a novelist of his standing, such a project would have been unthinkable). I wonder if the facts become a hindrance for an imaginative writer--that they must constantly rein

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