West of Sunset [BOOK CLUB KIT]
(Book Club in a Bag)

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Published
New York : Penguin Books, ©2015.
Format
Book Club in a Bag
ISBN
9780143128243
Physical Desc
10 paperbacks.
289 pages ; 24 cm
Status
Central Library - Book Club - Main Level - Fiction Area
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Published
New York : Penguin Books, ©2015.
Language
English
ISBN
9780143128243

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Book club kit.
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SBPL Book Club In a Bag Kit: 10 paperbacks.
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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)"--,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

O'Nan, S. (2015). West of Sunset [BOOK CLUB KIT] . Penguin Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

O'Nan, Stewart, 1961-. 2015. West of Sunset [BOOK CLUB KIT]. Penguin Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

O'Nan, Stewart, 1961-. West of Sunset [BOOK CLUB KIT] Penguin Books, 2015.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

O'Nan, Stewart. West of Sunset [BOOK CLUB KIT] Penguin Books, 2015.

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