West of Sunset

by Stewart O'Nan

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670785954
• ISBN13: 9780670785957
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Viking
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher