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West of Sunset by Stewart O'Nan review -- a fine fictional F Scott Fitzgerald
2015
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The story starts with a cash-strapped [F Scott Fitzgerald] leaving North Carolina -- where [Zelda] is confined to a sanatorium -- for Hollywood, an institution with its own constraints: \"Just being there,\" he ruminates, \"was a compromise.\" Buried inside the MGM Writers' Building (nicknamed the \"Iron Lung\"), he is transferred from one ill-fated script to the next -- no longer the \"golden wunderkind\" who wrote Gatsby, but a \"helpless\" hack, harried by bosses and binging on gin. Contrasting Fitzgerald's decline with the film industry's golden age, O'[Nan] conveys the writer's lifelong sense of estrangement: \"A poor boy from a rich neighbourhood, a midwesterner in the east, an easterner out west\", he was always a \"wanderer far from home\". Throughout the book, Scott's life is in flux; ironically, one of his few fixed landmarks is Zelda. Adrift in the world, the two are locked into a pattern they can't escape: their repeatedly broken promise that \"she would be sane. He would be sober\".
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