By 1964, he is living in complete obscurity, until a young writer, Nick Bellinger, tracks him down for an interview. Jun Nakayama was a silent film star in the early days of Hollywood. In 1960s L.A., a Japanese American former silent film star investigates a mystery from his dark past in this novel by the author of Southland.

It's an enormously satisfying novel.' - Publishers Weekly Revoyr beautifully invokes Jun's self-deceptions and his growing self-awareness. The carefully restrained voice of its narrator recalls Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day.' -Alison Lurie, Pulitzer Prize winner 'Cunning . . . . Revoyr deserves to be counted among the top ranks of novelists at work today.' -Jerry Stahl, author of I, Fatty 'Brilliant and original . . . . Praise for The Age of Dreaming 'With Nabokov-worthy sentences, characters so real our hearts begin to beat with theirs, and a story as deeply mysterious and riveting as any the Hollywood it conjures up could have created, The Age of Dreaming is a masterpiece of the sort that doesn't just seduce the reader-it leaves you transformed . . . . Jun must try to please both his Japanese and American fans, and while he is adored by moviegoers-especially women-he's despised by public officials, who see him as a threat to American power and racial purity. The Age of Dreaming alternates between the 1960s and the height of the silent film era, telling the story of a man caught between worlds. But what Jun ultimately discovers is far more complex and personal than even he could have imagined. And Ashley Bennett Tyler, the British director whose guiding hand turns Jun into a star. Hanako Minatoya, the elegant actress and playwright who serves as Jun's inspiration and foil. Nora Minton Niles, the dreamy, childlike teenage star controlled by her ambitious mother. Louis who becomes a major Hollywood diva. In the process, he recounts the lives of several other figures from the silent film era: Elizabeth Banks, the working-class girl from St.

Spurred on by his fear of a potential 'misunderstanding,' Jun begins to track down his surviving acquaintances from his years as Perennial Pictures' greatest star. Like the changing social and racial tides in California-and the unsolved murder of his favorite director.

But he begins to worry that someone might delve too deeply into the past and uncover the events that abruptly ended his career in 1922. When Bellinger reveals that he has written a screenplay with Nakayama in mind, Jun is intrigued by the possibility of returning to movies.

The Age of Dreaming by Nina Revoyr