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Finalist, 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Top Five Books of 2008, The Advocate
Best Books of 2008, January Magazine
"Rare indeed is a novel this deeply pleasurable and significant." —Booklist (starred review)
"Reminiscent of Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions in its concoction of spurious Hollywood history and its star's filmography, but Revoyr is a more ingenuous writer than Auster, if not as daring and spectacular." —San Francisco Chronicle
"Fast-moving, riveting, unpredictable, and profound; highly recommended." —Library Journal
"Revoyr conveys in a lucid, precise and period appropriate prose . . . a pulse-quickening, deliciously ironic serving of Hollywood noir." —Kirkus Reviews
"It's an enormously satisfying novel." —Publishers Weekly
"[Nina Revoyr is] an empathetic chronicler of the dispossessed outsider in LA." —Los Angeles Times
"Quietly powerful . . . settles to a close as deftly and beautifully as a crane landing on quiet water." —LA Weekly
"Revoyr resurrects the old old Hollywood, from the time before talkies, and dreams it into existence once again." —Bookforum
"[Nina Revoyr] is fast becoming one of the city's finest chroniclers and mythmakers." —Los Angeles Magazine
"Five stars." —Time Out Chicago
"The Age of Dreaming is a brilliant and original novel about Hollywood in the days of silent films. The carefully restrained voice of its narrator, once a famous film star, recalls Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day—but in his past, it turns out, there was also passion, madness, and murder." —Alison Lurie, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Foreign Affairs
"This is a riveting, wise, and gorgeous novel—rich in the social nuances of LA's silent film era and profoundly moving, often heartbreaking, in its exploration of the rise and fall of human lives. Every emotion in this book feels true and fully earned." —Mary Yukari Waters, author of The Laws of Evening
Jun Nakayama was a silent film star in the early days of Hollywood, but by 1964, he finds himself living in complete obscurity—until a young writer, Nick Bellinger, tracks him down for an interview. When Bellinger reveals that he has written a screenplay with Nakayama in mind, Jun is intrigued by the possibility of returning to the big screen. But he begins to worry that someone might delve too deeply into the past, and uncover the events that led to the abrupt end of his career in 1922. These events include the changing social and racial tides in California—and the unsolved murder of his favorite director, Ashley Bennett Tyler.
The Age of Dreaming explores the history of Los Angeles, the heady beginnings of the movie industry, and the interplay of race and celebrity. It is part historical novel, part murder mystery, and part unrequited love story—all told through the voice of a forgotten star who must gradually come to terms with his past.
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©2015 Nina Revoyr
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-61775-353-4
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-61775-354-1
e-ISBN: 978-1-61775-208-7
Library of Congress Control Number: 2014955092
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