Praise for West of Sunset “The Fitzgerald O’Nan gives us feels like the Fitzgerald of my dreams; in this way the book rises up to enfold the reader, it enfolded this reader naturally and exquisitely.” —Elizabeth Strout “West of Sunset is a rich, sometimes heartbreaking journey through the disintegration of an American legend. O’Nan captures the fire and frailty of F. Scott Fitzgerald with an understated grace Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. In his final, booze-addled years, F. Scott Fitzgerald tries his hand at Hollywood screenwriting, socializing with a colorful cast of characters that includes Humphrey Bogart, Dorothy Parker, Helen Hayes and Marlene Dietrich, while his troubled wife, Zelda, languishes in a North Carolina www.doorway.ru: Stewart O’Nan. About Stewart O’Nan. Stewart O’Nan is the author of numerous books, including West of Sunset, The Odds, Emily Alone, Snow Angels, Songs for the Missing, and A Prayer for the Dying. His novel, Last Night at the Lobster, was a national bestseller and a finalist Pages:
Find many great new used options and get the best deals for West of Sunset by Stewart O'Nan (, Hardcover) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! O'Nan, Stewart. West of Sunset. Zelda Fitzgerald, the mostly absent invalid in the book, concludes this account of her husband's death with platitudinous religious cant about 'the blessings of faith.' Scott himself avoids such pieties, as does his paramour Sheilah, whose work occupies her to the exclusion of the failed writer waiting. West of Sunset, the novel by Stewart O'Nan suggests the answer to that question. West of Sunset fictionalizes the last few years of FSF's life c. to when he had come to Hollywood to write for the pictures. He was always in desperate need of money; he supported a wife in a private asylum and a daughter in private school, and.
Stewart O'Nan's West of Sunset, his glimmering fictional biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald's troubled years in Hollywood, is simply one of the best books I've read in many months. In some ways, this is a portrait of the artist as an aging man. Praise for West of Sunset “The Fitzgerald O’Nan gives us feels like the Fitzgerald of my dreams; in this way the book rises up to enfold the reader, it enfolded this reader naturally and exquisitely.” —Elizabeth Strout “West of Sunset is a rich, sometimes heartbreaking journey through the disintegration of an American legend. O’Nan captures the fire and frailty of F. Scott Fitzgerald with an understated grace that would have made Fitzgerald himself stand up and applaud.”. A Face in the Crowd is a novella by Stephen King and O'Nan, originally published as an e-book on Aug, as well as an audiobook, read by Craig Wasson. [10] In , O'Nan released a novel entitled West of Sunset, about the last days of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald as he moves out to Los Angeles after being ruined financially and experiencing health problems, after his wife is put in an insane asylum. [11].
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