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Exiles

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.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 226
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-374-15096-9
  • EAN
  • 9780374150969
  • Genres
  • memoir, biography
  • Release date
  • 1970