Darcy O'Brien

A Way of Life, Like Any Other

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The troubled son of two aging Hollywood stars struggles with his parents' divorce and the agony that accompanies fame in this powerful coming-of-age story. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

Produktdetails

• New York Review Books Classics
• Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: August 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 182g
• ISBN-13: 9780940322790
• ISBN-10: 094032279X
• Artikelnr.: 21899903

Autorenporträt

Darcy O’Brien (1939-1998) was born in Los Angeles, the son of the movie stars George O’Brien and Marguerite Churchill. He attended Princeton and the University of California, Berkeley, and taught at the University of Tulsa. O’Brien’s first novel, A Way of Life, Like Any Other, won the PEN/Hemingway award. His books include the novels The Silver Spooner  and Margaret in Hollywood, critical studies of James Joyce and Patrick Kavanagh, and several other works of nonfiction, among themTwo of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers and The Hidden Pope. Seamus Heaney’s first poetry collection, Death of a Naturalist, appeared forty years ago. Since then he has published poetry, criticism, and translations that have established him as one of the leading poets of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.