The west coast tour continues tonight at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena!

Stewart O’Nan discusses and signs West of Sunset

Start: 01/28/2015 7:00 pm

Location:
Vroman’s Bookstore
695 E. Colorado Blvd
Pasadena, California
91101

In 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a troubled man whose literary success was long over. In poor health, with his wife consigned to a mental asylum and his finances in shambles, he struggled to make a new start as a screenwriter in Hollywood. Just three years later, he would be dead of a heart attack. Those final years of Fitzgerald’s life, often obscured by the legend of his earlier Jazz Age glamour, are the focus of Stewart O’Nan’s brilliantly written novel. With flashbacks to key moments from Fitzgerald’s past, the story follows him as he arrives on the MGM lot, begins work on The Last Tycoon, and tries to maintain a semblance of family life with the absent Zelda and their daughter Scottie.