The disenchanted

The Disenchanted tells the tragic story of Manley Halliday, a fabulously successful writer during the 1920s, who by the late 1930s is forgotten by the literary establishment, living in Hollywood and writing for the film industry. Halliday is hired to work on a screenplay with a young writer named Shep. The two are sent to New York City, where a few drinks on the plane begin Halliday's epic disintegration. Based in part on a real-life and ill-fated writing assignment between Budd Schulberg and F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1939, Schulberg's novel stands as one of the most compelling and emotional evocations of generational disillusionment and fallen American stardom.