Exiles
, by Arlen, Michael J.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780374532604 | 0374532605
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 10/12/2010
Back in print, "a wry and moving . . . rare and minute accounting of growing up." (Time) Exilesis the story of two glamorous peopleone, 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, their son evokeswith humor and honestyhis 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.