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The Friday afternoon club : a family memoir / Griffin Dunne.
"A memoir and coming-of-age story chronicling the successes and disappointments, wit and wildness of Dunne and his multigenerational family of larger-than-life characters"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593652824 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 385 pages, unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2024.
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| Subject: | Dunne, Griffin. Dunne, Griffin > Family. Actors > United States > Biography. |
| Genre: | Biographies. Autobiographies. Personal narratives. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | 791.43028092 Dunne | 31681010376697 | NONFIC | Available | - |
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"A memoir and coming-of-age story chronicling the successes and disappointments, wit and wildness of Dunne and his multigenerational family of larger-than-life characters"-- - Penguin Putnam
The instant New York Times bestseller ⢠Named a Best Book of the Year by TIME, NPR, People, Town & Country, and Air Mail
âWarm and perceptive.â âNew York Times
âGriffin Dunne knows how to tell a story." âWashington Post
"Dunne is a prospector for the incandescent detail.â âLos Angeles Times
âWhat a remarkable and moving story filled with twists and turns, the most famous of faces, and a complex family revealed with loving candor. I was blown away by Griffin Dunneâs life and his ability to capture so much of it in these beautifully written pages.â âAnderson Cooper
Griffin Dunneâs memoir of growing up among larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan finds wicked humor and glimmers of light in even the most painful of circumstances
At eight, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin, he attended his aunt Joan Didion and uncle John Gregory Dunneâs legendary LA launch party for Tom Wolfeâs The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. At sixteen, he got kicked out of boarding school, ending his institutional education for good. In his early twenties, he shared an apartment in Manhattanâs 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 concessionaire 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, Griffinâs twenty-two-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. The outcome was a travesty of justice that marked the beginning of their father Dominick Dunneâs career as a crime reporter for Vanity Fair and a victimsâ rights activist.
And yet, for all its boldface cast of characters and jaw-dropping scenes, The Friday Afternoon Club is no mere celebrity memoir. It is, down to its bones, a family story that embraces the poignant absurdities and best and worst efforts of its loveable, infuriating, funny, and moving charactersâits author most of all.
