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.
- | Author: Michael J. Arlen
- | Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- | Publication Date: Oct 12, 2010
- | Number of Pages: 240 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0374532605
- | ISBN-13: 9780374532604
