The Age of Dreaming

The Age of Dreaming

She examined race, love, and sexual identity in the high-stakes world of college athletics in The Necessary Hunger and created an instant-classic lesbian mystery in Southland. Now author Nina Revoyr brings her gifts for sumptuous prose and unforgettable characters to the glamorous world of classic Hollywood in The Age of Dreaming. It’s the story of a silent film star, the driven young journalist who rousts him from retirement, and the secrets and scandals they uncover.

Jun Nakayama was one of the greatest leading men and most stunning sex symbols of the silent-film era—despite racist resentment of his Japanese heritage. But by 1922 his career was over, cut short by a love triangle involving two beautiful leading ladies and a beloved British director who ended up murdered.

Over forty years later, Nakayama is living happily, prosperously, and secretively in the Hollywood Hills. Then an enterprising writer named Nick Bellinger approaches him for an interview—and the starring role in a screenplay written just for Nakayama. Now the aging legend must track down his old friends before the murder mystery—and his own guilty secret—can once again shatter his delicate existence.

Hardcover: 336 pages

Publisher: Akashic Books ( May 01, 2008 )

Item #: 67-1895

ISBN: 9781607517535

Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.25 x 0.75 inches

Product Weight: 15.0 ounces