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Sunnyside
Sunnyside | Glen David Gold
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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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Creadnorthey
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Found this one to be too much of a slog- granted there are super bits but the sum of the parts did not make a cohesive whole. I always felt there was a bigger structure Gold was alluding to, but if it‘s there I couldn‘t grasp it. I dragged myself to the end with the hope that it would come together. It never did.

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goodbyefrancie
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Passed on to me by a friend. You have to love a #freebie! #riotgrams

Leftcoastzen I have Sunnyside stashed somewhere !TBR for a long time. 7y
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rwrkb
Sunnyside | Glen David Gold
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Another signed book. This one is a very cool bound edition of the first part of Gold's second novel. I also have a loose autograph from when I met Gold but didn't have his first novel, Carter Beats the Devil because my copy at the time had been lost in a move.

RealBooks4ever That reminds me- I've had Carter Beats The Devil on my shelf for years & I still haven't read it. Did you enjoy it? 7y
rwrkb @RealBooks4ever I loved it. Granted I haven't read it since I was 18, but I was definitely enamored with it. Was always bummed the film adaptation fell by the wayside. 7y
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