Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Allen & Unwin Acquire Novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Final Years

Allen & Unwin are delighted to announce that they have acquired UK/Commonwealth and ANZ rights to Stewart O'Nan's novel West of Sunset, a fictional retelling of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Hollywood years, from Rachel Clements at Abner Stein on behalf of The Gernert Company.

'West of Sunset will be required reading for anyone who loves The Great Gatsby. Stewart O'Nan has performed an astonishing act of literary ventriloquism to recreate, with great subtlety and pathos, the final, tragic years of Fitzgerald's life amidst the corrupt glamour of Hollywood. This novel is quite simply a tour de force', said Allen & Unwin's UK Director, Clare Drysdale.

Rights have also sold to Rowohlt in Germany and Editions de l'Olivier in France. Allen & Unwin will publish West of Sunset in August 2015. 

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