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The Friday afternoon club : a family memoir
Dunne, Griffin2024
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Click and Collect for The Friday afternoon club : a family memoir"At eight, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin, he attended his aunt Joan Didion's legendary L.A. party for the publication of Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. In his early 20s, he shared an apartment in Manhattan's Hotel Des Artistes with his best friend and soulmate Carrie Fisher, while she was filming some sci-fi movie called Star Wars and he was a struggling actor working as a popcorn seller at Radio City Music Hall. A few years later, he produced and starred in the now-iconic film After Hours, directed by Martin Scorsese. In the midst of it all, Griffin's 22-year-old sister Dominique, a rising star in Hollywood, was brutally strangled to death by her ex-boyfriend, leading to one of the most infamous public trials of the 1980s, which ended in a travesty of justice that also somehow marked the beginning of their father Dominick Dunne's career as a bestselling author of true crime narratives. And yet, for all its bold-face cast of characters and jaw-dropping scenes, The Friday Afternoon Club is no celebrity memoir. It is, down to its bones, a family story that brilliantly embraces the poignant absurdities and best and worst efforts of its loveable, infuriating, funny and moving characters - its author most of all - finding wicked, self-deprecating humour and glints of surprising light in even the most harrowing and painful of circumstances."-- Provided by publisher.
Main title:
The Friday afternoon club : a family memoir / Griffin Dunne.
Author:
Dunne, Griffin, author
Imprint:
London : Grove Press UK, 2024.©2024
Collation:
385 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
978180471055597818047105559781804710555978180471055597818047105559781804710555
Dewey class:
791.43028092B791.43
Language:
English
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BRN:
564315
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumaris Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 791.43 DUN | Onloan - Due: 09 Sep 2024 |
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 791.43 DUN | In-transit from Brighton Library to Sandringham Library (Set: 21 Sep 2024) |
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 791.43 DUN | On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 16 Sep 2024) |
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 791.43 DUN | Onloan - Due: 26 Sep 2024 |
| Sandringham Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 791.43 DUN | On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 10 Sep 2024) |
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