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Glen David Silver, author of the best retailer Carter Is better than the Devil, now gives us a grand entertainment with the brilliantly noticed figure of Charlie Chaplin at its middle: a novel simultaneously cinematic and romantic, heartrending and darkly comic, that captures the moment when American capitalism, a global at warfare, and the appearing mecca of Hollywood intersect to spawn an long lasting culture of super star.
Sunnyside opens over a winter day in 1916 where Charlie Chaplin is spotted in more than eight hundred places concurrently, an extraordinary delusion that forever binds the overlapping fortunes of three men: Leland Wheeler, child of the world’s last (and worst) Wild Western world superstar, as he discovers sudden love on the battlefields of France; Hugo Dark, drafted to struggle under the towering Basic Edmund Ironside in America’s doomed expedition from the Bolsheviks; and Chaplin himself, as he encounters a tightening vise of complications—studio room moguls, questions about his patriotism, his unchecked heart and soul, and, most menacing of most, his mother.
The narrative is as abundant and expansive as the ground it covers, and it is cast with a dazzling roster of both real and fictional characters: Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Adolph Zukor, Chaplin’s (first) child bride, a thieving Female Scout, the secretary of the treasury, a lovesick film theorist, three Russian princesses (gracious, nervous, and nihilist), a crew of fly-by-the-seat-of-their-pants moviemakers, legions of starstruck lovers, and Rin Tin Tin.
By changes lighthearted and profound, Sunnyside can be an altogether spellbinding novel about dreams, ambition, and the dawn of the modern get older.
From the Hardcover release.
