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Dunne, Griffin.
The Friday Afternoon Club
[Libby] :
A Family Memoir.
Penguin Publishing Group,
2024.
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HTML:<b>The instant <i>New York Times</i> bestseller! <br /> “Warm and perceptive.” —<i>New York Times</i><br /> “Griffin Dunne knows how to tell a story." —<i>Washington Post<br /></i><br /> "Dunne is a prospector for the incandescent detail.”  —<i>Los Angeles Times</i><br /> “What 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 Dunne’s life and his ability to capture so much of it in these beautifully written pages.” —Anderson Cooper<br /> <br /> Griffin Dunne’s 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</b><br /> 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 Dunne’s legendary LA launch party for Tom Wolfe’s <i>The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.</i> At sixteen, he got kicked out of boarding school, ending his institutional education for good. In his early twenties, 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 <i>Star Wars</i> 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 <i>After Hours</i>, directed by Martin Scorsese. In the midst of it all, Griffin’s 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 Dunne’s career as a crime reporter for <i>Vanity Fair</i> and a victims' rights activist.<br /> And yet, for all its boldface cast of characters and jaw-dropping scenes, <i>The Friday Afternoon Club</i> 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 characters—its author most of all.
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