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Title details for The Sunset Crowd by Karin Tanabe - Available

The Sunset Crowd

A Novel

by Karin Tanabe
Sarah Mollo-Christensen
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Money and fame: in 1970s Los Angeles, everyone is fighting to reach the top, but very few have the talent, ambition, and luck to get there.
Meet LA darling Evra Scott. The daughter of an Oscar-winning director and a Brazilian bombshell actress, Evra is the city's reigning style queen. By day, she's at the helm of Sunset on Sunset, the store beloved by Hollywood's young and beautiful. By night, she's on the arm of Kai de la Faire, Hawaii's hottest export, and the screenwriter of the moment.
Enter Theodora Leigh. The twenty-something Paramount assistant looks like a big screen star, but her sights are firmly set behind the scenes, as she fights to become a movie producer in a town where sex and sexism sell. Theodora's got the talent and instincts, but she's not willing to wait. Luckily, getting ahead by any means necessary is LA's mantra.
Observing it all is Bea Dupont, a photographer for Rolling Stone and Vogue, who never misses the party, but always keeps to its fringes. A Manhattan blue blood turned West Coast bohemian, Bea holds Evra's Sunset crowd together. She's also Kai's oldest friend, and she's harbored a not-so-secret flame for him since they met at an elite Swiss boarding school.
But in Hollywood, no one stays on top forever. And it's not long before Theodora's unrelenting ambition sets in motion a dramatic quest for power in an industry that is as glamorous as it is duplicitous. From Rodeo Drive to the French Riviera, The Sunset Crowd is a tale of survival and reinvention, of faking it until you make it, and the glittering appeal of success and stardom, as it seeks to answer that timeless question—who gets to have the American dream?
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press.

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    July 4, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9781250900432
      • File size: 321508 KB
      • Duration: 11:09:48

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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 10, 2023
      In the canny latest from Tanabe (A Hundred Suns), a woman navigates love and friendship in cutthroat 1970s Hollywood. Narrator Beatrice Dupont befriends Hawaiian native Kai de la Faire, whom she describes as “a beautiful man with a big personality,” at a Swiss boarding school. Now, in her 20s and working as a photographer in Los Angeles for Vogue and Rolling Stone, Bea reconnects with Kai and meets his girlfriend, Evra Scott. A member of Hollywood’s royalty thanks to her actor mother and director father, Evra has eschewed the spotlight and instead opened a trend-setting clothing boutique. As Kai finds success with a screenplay and Evra’s star continues to rise, Bea plays the third wheel while pining for Kai (“I knew I couldn’t compete, but I could wait”). When Theodora Leigh, an attractive assistant at Paramount, shows up at Evra’s shop, she captures everyone’s attention, including Kai’s. Theodora is not shy about her determination to become a producer, but as she snakes her way into the trio’s mix, drama ensues, and Bea wonders if Theodora might have ulterior motives. Tanabe paints Bea as a strong leading lady who understands the pitfalls of Los Angeles (“It’s all one big con”), and she makes the characters deliciously complicated over the course of their ever-shifting allegiances. Readers will delight in this sunburst of ’70s nostalgia. Agent: Alyssa Reuben, WME.

    • Library Journal

      June 10, 2024

      The latest from Tanabe (A Hundred Suns) follows Bea Dupont and her glittering group of friends, beautiful young women taking 1970s Hollywood by storm. A celebrity photographer, Bea is one of many who orbit Evra Scott, an effortlessly cool It Girl and daughter of Hollywood royalty. Kai de la Faire, a Native Hawaiian whom Bea knew in Swiss boarding school, is also part of their set. Bea has always longed for Kai, but he gravitates toward flashier women like Evra. When the mysterious Theodora Leigh bursts on the scene, dazzling them all, their lives are changed forever. There's a touch of All About Eve in this novel that pulls listeners in and makes the frustrating obliviousness of Evra's crowd believable. Sarah Mollo-Christensen narrates in an understated way that easily conveys each character's personality. Her warm, honeyed voice engages, making those who might otherwise be deemed shallow seem sympathetic. Although the novel is set in the 1970s, Mollo-Christensen's capable narration makes the tale thoroughly relatable and modern. VERDICT A captivating look at the lengths to which women will go for success. For fans of Taylor Reid Jenkins's Daisy Jones & the Six or Kayla Rae Whitaker's The Animators.--B. Allison Gray

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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