O'Nan, Stewart (, 1961-)

West of sunset : a novel / Stewart O'Nan. - New York : Viking , 2015 - 289 p. ; 24 cm

A 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. 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, 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 novel.


English.

9780670785957


Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896 - 1940 --) --Fiction


Authors, American---20th century ----Fiction
Literary ----Fiction


Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)----Fiction


Historical fiction
Biographical fiction

PS3565.N316 / W47 2015

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