03348cam a2200349 4500 761810890 TxAuBib 20230213120000.0 ||||||s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781415959237 1415959234 905fad22-218c-4468-b14e-043b8f74f810 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 193275 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Gold, Glen David. Sunnyside [Libby]. Books on Tape, 2009. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 644MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 643MB. Fiction. Literature. HTML:Glen David Gold, author of the best seller <i>Carter Beats the Devil,</i> 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.<i><br /> Sunnyside</i> 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, <i>his mother.</i><br /> 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.<br /> By turns lighthearted and profound, <i>Sunnyside</i> is an altogether spellbinding novel about dreams, ambition, and the dawn of the modern age. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-04-13 10:07:10. Dean, Robertson. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/193275-Sunnyside.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/193275-Sunnyside.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=905FAD22-218C-4468-B14E-043B8F74F810&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/193275-Sunnyside.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/193275-Sunnyside.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=905FAD22-218C-4468-B14E-043B8F74F810&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) RV8