| Author: | Michael J. Arlen | ISBN: | 9781466873995 |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Publication: | June 17, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Language: | English |
| Author: | Michael J. Arlen |
| ISBN: | 9781466873995 |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Publication: | June 17, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
