A Way of Life, Like Any Other
A Novel
This PEN/Hemingway Award winner about coming of age in Los Angeles is a little gem of a novel . . . a masterwork of Hollywood fiction (Salon). He's a child of 1940s Hollywood-specifically, Casa Fiesta, a ranch in the Malibu hills that he shares with his mother, a onetime Broadway headliner, and his father, a star of Westerns. But when his parents fall out of favor in Tinseltown, the narrator of this exquisitely crafted dark comedy loses his youthful idyll and accompanies his lovesick mother on a vodka-soaked international quest for romance and redemption. Meanwhile, his father lives in diminished circumstances in California, clinging to his s…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4976-5871-4
- EAN: 9781497658714
- Produktnummer: 19297146
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 180 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'194 KB
Über den Autor
Darcy O'Brien is the author of the novels A Way of Life, Like Any Other, which won the Ernest Hemingway Award for Best First Novel in 1978, and The Silver Spooner, as well as the nonfiction bestseller Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers. He died in 1998.
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