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Article: Leland and the Tramp
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 21, 2009
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Fiction Charlie Chaplin returns to life in this dazzling novel
SunnysideBy Glen David Gold Sceptre Pounds 17.99
In his bestselling first novel, Carter Beats the Devil, Gold
fictionalised the real life of Charles Carter, a lovelorn 1920s
magician. A striking, funny and inventive book, it placed its author
at the forefront of American letters, a position further enhanced by
his marriage to Alice Sebold. It has taken Gold eight years to
produce his follow up, Sunnyside, which again spins a kaleidoscopic
tale of romance and intrigue around the life of a well-known showman
from the early 20th century.
For this performance, the curtain goes up on perhaps the most
famous entertainer of all ...