West of Sunset - Softcover

"Mesmerising and haunting... The strings O'Nan pulls so deftly are really the mark of a consummate pro, along the lines of Fitzgerald himself."- Boston Globe. "[A] gorgeous new novel... O'Nan is a writer alert to the courage and beauty inherent in the stories of people who simply have to keep on keeping on... "The Love of the Last Tycoon," even though unfinished, is a pretty fine Hollywood novel. "West of Sunset" is pretty fine Hollywood novel, too, but it's an even finer novel about a great writer's determination to keep trying to do his best work, to keep reaching for "the silver pepper of the stars," even at a time when he was universally dismissed as a has-been." - Washington Post. "O'Nan's adroitness with atmosphere and period detail makes Fitzgerald's dreams of creating worthy work, even with his best days behind him, absorbing and poignant." - New Yorker. "O'Nan... skillfully pulls us into Fitzgerald's gilded and yet familiar world. He brings the Hollywood legends to life. By the end, they feel like friends." - Chicago Tribune. "With West of Sunset, one brilliant American novelist has taken on another... big-heart and fascinating."- Seattle Times. "The beautifully realised Zelda sections strike a minor, elegiac chord... they let us imagine what it might have been like inside Fitzgerald's brilliant, tortured mind." --New York Times

Stewart O'Nan is the author of fourteen previous novels, including The Odds; Emily, Alone; A Prayer for the Dying; and Snow Angels, as well as several works of nonfiction, including, with Stephen King, the bestselling Faithful. His novel Last Night at the Lobster was a US bestseller and finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He was born and raised in Pittsburgh where he lives with his family.