A quintessentially American epic Sunnyside stars the one and only Little Tramp Charlie Chaplin Its 1916 and after an extraordinary mass delusion where Chaplin is spotted in more than eight hundred places simultaneously his fame is at its peak but his inspiration is at a low As he struggles to find a film project as worthy as himself we are introduced to a dazzling cast of characters that take us from the battlefields of France to the Russian Revolution and from the budding glamour of Hollywood to madcap Wild West shows The result is a spellbinding novel about dreams ambition and the birth of modern America