{"product_id":"book-av6w","title":"Sunnyside","description":"Glen David Gold, author of the best seller \u003ci\u003eCarter Beats the Devil, \u003c\/i\u003enow 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.\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSunnyside\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003ehis mother.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy turns lighthearted and profound, \u003ci\u003eSunnyside\u003c\/i\u003e is an altogether spellbinding novel about dreams, ambition, and the dawn of the modern age.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49339755299120,"sku":"BDav6w","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/206834-av6w-Square.jpg?v=1734028863","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-av6w","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}