· “Glen David Gold’s Doctorow-esque Sunnyside brings young America to vivid life as he weaves together European battlefields and the backlots of Hollywood Gold is a masterful, even heart-stopping storyteller.” —Entertainment Weekly “An insanely ambitious novelBrand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. “Glen David Gold’s Doctorow-esque Sunnyside brings young America to vivid life as he weaves together European battlefields and the backlots of Hollywood Gold is a masterful, even heart-stopping storyteller.” —Entertainment Weekly “An insanely ambitious novel/5(80). Sunnyside pops and crackles with cleverness but it's also a bit ramshackle. Gold is a wizard at making things up and mixing them in with things not made up. But sometimes the mixture is .
Sunnyside. A Novel. Glen David Gold. Alfred A. Knopf: pp., $ Glen David Gold's massive new novel begins with a trick, a coup, the literary equivalent of sleight of hand. Gold hits a promising scenario with that adventurist debacle, but he doesn't quite work it for all it's worth, since his story requires travel elsewhere while Chaplin attempts to make a doomed film called, yes, Sunnyside—doomed because, then as always, the suits got in the way. ("The kingpins of the industry, having taken the measure of. Glen David Gold's new novel takes its title and perhaps too much of its spirit from Charlie Chaplin's weirdest movie, a rare financial flop called "Sunnyside." At just 34 minutes long, the film cobbled together several incongruous scenes, including some classic slapstick, a surreal dance with wood nymphs, a violent suicide and a baffling.
Glen David Gold's new novel takes its title and perhaps too much of its spirit from Charlie Chaplin's weirdest movie, a rare financial flop called "Sunnyside." At just 34 minutes long, the film cobbled together several incongruous scenes, including some classic slapstick, a surreal dance with wood nymphs, a violent suicide and a baffling happy ending. Glen David Gold on Sunnyside Charlie Chaplin became the repository of the soul of the 20th century through an especially mysterious alchemy. In trying to explain this, most commentators eventually turn their eyes away, as if wrapping their heads around it is too impossible, too much like explaining, well, magic. Which is where I come in. “Glen David Gold’s Doctorow-esque Sunnyside brings young America to vivid life as he weaves together European battlefields and the backlots of Hollywood Gold is a masterful, even heart-stopping storyteller.” —Entertainment Weekly “An insanely ambitious novel.
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