# Sunnyside

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- Book: [Sunnyside](https://www.bookquiver.com/glen-david-gold/sunnyside) ([Sunnyside.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/glen-david-gold/sunnyside.md))
- Authors: [Glen David Gold](https://www.bookquiver.com/glen-david-gold)
- Publisher: sceptre
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-18-4894-406-0
- Published: 2009-06-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

From the author of the acclaimed Carter Beats the Devil comes a grand entertainment with the brilliantly realized figure of Charlie Chaplin at its centre: a novel at once cinematic and intimate, thrilling and darkly comic, which dramatizes the moment when American capitalism, a world at war, and the emerging mecca of Hollywood intersect to spawn an enduring culture of celebrity. Sunnyside follows three overlapping fortunes: Leland Wheeler, son of the last (and worst) Wild West star, as he heads to the battlefields of France; snobbish Hugo Black, drafted to fight in Russia under the British general, Edmund Ironside; and Chaplin himself, contending with studio moguls, accusations of cowardice, his unchecked heart and, most menacing of all, his mother, as he pursues the goal of making a movie ‘as good as he was’. With a cast of enthralling characters both historical and fictional, Sunnyside is a heart-rending, spellbinding novel about dreams, ambition and the dawn of the modern age.