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Exiles : A Memoir
Overview
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.Customers Also Bought
Details
- ISBN-13: 9780374532604
- ISBN-10: 0374532605
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publish Date: October 2010
- Dimensions: 8.25 x 5.5 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.5 pounds
- Page Count: 240
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