Description: Kate Donnelly is an aspiring writer who has made her way to Los Angeles in the hopes of rubbing shoulders with celebrities and of becoming a writer. She has come to Hollywood to pick up the fallen standard of her literary hero F. Scott Fitzgerald, who loved all things that were just out of reach and whose last obsession had been Hollywood. Prepared to immerse herself in all that is L.A., Kate heads straight to Forest Lawn, the city's most celebrity-packed cemetery (Mariyln Monroe is there) to attend the celebrity-packed funeral of the renowned and despised Hollywood producer, Larry Dryco. Kate soon finds herself masquerading among strangers who don't distinguish between Hemingway and Fitzgerald, and mixing with ex-duchesses, major players, scrofulous publishers, aging enfants terribles and philosopher/gurus as she makes her way in this foreign land. Perceptive, witty, and wise, West of Paradise is terrific fun.

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