The offer leads Jun to revisit the past, reflecting on his arrival in the United States in 1907, his enormously successful film career, his romances and frustrating almost romances, and, finally, the event that would end his life as an actor: the unsolved murder of a famous director, a crime in which Jun was implicated. But Bellinger, Jun learns, has an ulterior motive: He’s written a screenplay and has already talked a slick Hollywood player into considering Jun for one of the parts. Jun, who by 1964 is long retired and living in obscurity, receives a telephone call from a journalist and silent-film enthusiast, Nick Bellinger, who’d like to interview the aged actor. The Age of Dreaming tracks the way LA and the movie world changed between the ’20s and the ’60s.
But the book’s real luminary is Los Angeles- old Hollywood in particular-a place where big dreams and big business rubbed shoulders, but with less treachery and friction than they do today. The star of Nina Revoyr’s third novel, The Age of Dreaming, is ostensibly Jun Nakayama, a silent-film-era Hollywood heartthrob.
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