Exiles - Brossura

Arlen, Michael J.

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ISBN 10: 0374532605 ISBN 13: 9780374532604

Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2010

Riassunto

Back in print, "a wry and moving . . . rare and minute accounting of growing up." (Time)

Exiles is the story of two glamorous people--one, a beautiful aristocrat; the other, a self-made man, one of the most famous authors of the 1920s. In this slender volume, which was nominated for the 1970 National Book Award and helped reestablish the memoir as a genre, Michael J. Arlen evokes--with humor and honesty--his parents' seemingly charmed life in Hollywood and New York, his own childhood spent between homes and boarding schools, and the decline of a family full of love, joy, and pride in one another: in other words, a family as ordinary as it is unusual.

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Recensione:

One would be forgiven for wanting to read Exiles on the merit of its name-dropping glamour alone, even if glamour is only the tenth best thing about the book. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times --The New York Times

L'autore:

Michael J. Arlen is an Anglo-Armenian writer and former television critic for The New Yorker. He is the author of the acclaimed Passage to Ararat (FSG Classics, 2006), an autobiographical narrative of his Armenian ancestry, andLiving-Room War.

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• Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0374532605
• ISBN 13: 9780374532604
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 226