New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2009. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0307270688 . A handsome first edition/first printing in Near Fine condition with minor soiling to bottom edge and bumped upper front corner in alike dust jacket with light edgewear and soiling to rear panel. SIGNED and dated 20 May 2009 by author Glen David Gold directly on the title page (with his characteristic Woof! Notation next to the Borzoi dog); A spellbinding novel about dreams, ambition, and the dawn of the modern age. On a winter day in 1916 silent picture actor Charles Chaplin is spotted in more than 800 places simultaneously. It is a delusion that forever binds the fortunes of three men: Leland Wheeler, Hugo Black and Chaplin himself; 8vo; [xii], [4]-559, [560], [4] pages; Signed by Author .

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Glen David Gold, author of the best seller Carter Beats the Devil, now gives us a grand entertainment with the brilliantly realized figure of Charlie Chaplin at its center: a novel at once cinematic and intimate, heartrending and darkly comic, that captures the moment when American capitalism, a world at war, and the emerging mecca of Hollywood intersect to spawn an enduring culture of celebrity.Sunnyside opens on a winter day in 1916 during which Charlie Chaplin is spotted in more than eight hundred places simultaneously, an extraordinary delusion that forever binds the overlapping fortunes of three men: Leland Wheeler, son of the world's last (and worst) Wild West star, as he finds unexpected love on the battlefields of France; Hugo Black, drafted to fight under the towering General Edmund Ironside in America's doomed expedition against the Bolsheviks; and Chaplin himself, as he faces a tightening vise of complications--studio moguls, questions about his patriotism, his unchecked heart, and, most menacing of all, his mother.The narrative is as rich 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 Girl 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 fans, and Rin Tin Tin.By turns lighthearted and profound, Sunnyside is an altogether spellbinding novel about dreams, ambition, and the dawn of the modern age.From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller: Books Tell You Why, Inc. (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 25446
Title: Sunnyside - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Author: Gold, Glen David
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
ISBN 10: 0307270688
ISBN 13: 9780307270689
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2009
Keywords: Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Cons YuSon

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