The Friday afternoon club : a family memoir
Dunne, Griffin2024
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At nine, 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. But, '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.
Main title:
The Friday afternoon club : a family memoir / Griffin Dunne.
Author:
Dunne, Griffin, author
Imprint:
London : Grove Press UK, 2024.
Collation:
385 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm
Notes:
Illustrations and text on lining papers.
ISBN:
9781804710548 (hbk)
Dewey class:
791.43028092BDUN
Language:
English
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BRN:
1436099
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