Sunnyside by Glen David Gold - 2009

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. SIGNED. Brand New. 1st/1st. Stated First Edition with no other printings. Signed and dated 4 June 09 on the title page. Unread, tight, and straight with even pages sharps tips and clean boards that are not bumped. No writing, bookplate, or marks and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped and pristine. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover. Author's second novel after Carter Beats the Devil. Purchased after a book signing in San Mateo, CA.

A quintessentially American epic, Sunnyside stars the one and only Little Tramp, Charlie Chaplin. It's 1916 and, after an extraordinary mass delusion where Chaplin is spotted in more than eight hundred places simultaneously, his fame is at its peak but his inspiration is at a low. As he struggles to find a film project as worthy as himself, we are introduced to a dazzling cast of characters that take us from the battlefields of France to the Russian Revolution and from the budding glamour of Hollywood to madcap Wild West shows. The result is a spellbinding novel about dreams, ambition, and the birth of modern America.