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Sunnyside (Hardback)
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Short Description for SunnysideBy the author of the bestselling CARTER BEATS THE DEVIL, a novel in which Charlie Chaplin collides with the First World War in a panoramic tale about the dawn of our modern age
Full description- Publisher: Sceptre
- Published: 25 June 2009
- Format: Hardback 576 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780340995631 ISBN 10: 0340995637
- Sales rank: 413,116
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Full description for Sunnyside
From the author of the acclaimed CARTER BEATS THE DEVIL comes a grand entertainment with the brilliantly realized figure of Charlie Chaplin at its centre: a novel at once cinematic and intimate, thrilling and darkly comic, which dramatizes the moment when American capitalism, a world at war, and the emerging mecca of Hollywood intersect to spawn an enduring culture of celebrity. SUNNYSIDE follows three overlapping fortunes: Leland Wheeler, son of the last (and worst) Wild West star, as he heads to the battlefields of France; snobbish Hugo Black, drafted to fight in Russia under the British general, Edmund Ironside; and Chaplin himself, contending with studio moguls, accusations of cowardice, his unchecked heart and, most menacing of all, his mother, as he pursues the goal of making a movie 'as good as he was'. With a cast of enthralling characters both historical and fictional, SUNNYSIDE is a heart-rending, spellbinding novel about dreams, ambition and the dawn of the modern age.

