Al Oeste del Edén

In the city of Los Angeles the sun shines practically the three hundred and sixty-five days of the year; On one of its hills, the legendary Hollywood sign announces the world's most powerful dream factory, and on others, mansions follow one another. Several of these lavish residences are part of this book, which reconstructs the city's inordinate history through five emblematic families, with their glamor, their excesses, their bedroom secrets, their extravagances, their accumulation of wealth and power and their destructive tensions. The author introduces us to the Doheny, whose patriarch inspired Upton Sinclair's Oil !, and Wells of Ambition, by Paul Thomas Anderson; Jack Warner and his brothers, who built one of the big Hollywood studios; Jane Garland, a young psychically unbalanced aspiring actress; to the star Jennifer Jones, her husband, the megalomaniac producer Selznick, and their offspring, of tragic destiny, and, finally, to her own family and the figure of her father, founder of the Music Corporation of America, a key part of the powerful music industry.