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West of Sunset

West of Sunset( )
Author: O'Nan, Stewart
ISBN:978-1-62899-502-2
Publication Date:Apr 2015
Publisher:Center Point Large Print
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $35.95
Book Description:

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.

Book Details
Pages:500
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / Biographical
Fiction / Performing Arts / Film, Television & Radio
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.81 x 8.5 Inches
Author Biography
O'Nan, Stewart (Author)
Stewart O'Nan was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on February 4, 1961. He received a B. S. from Boston University in 1983 and received a M. F. A. in fiction from Cornell University in 1992. Before becoming a writer, he worked as a test engineer for Grumman Aerospace from 1984 to 1988.

He has written several novels including The Speed Queen, A Prayer for the Dying, Last Night at the Lobster, The Circus Fire, and Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season. In the Walled City won the 1993 Due Heinz Literature Prize; Snow Angels won the 1993 Pirates Alley William Faulkner Prize; and The Names of the Dead won the 1996 Oklahoma Book Award. Snow Angels was made into a feature film in 2007. In 1996, he was listed as one of Granta's best young American novelists.

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