A Way of Life, Like Any Other de O'Brien, Darcy

New York: New York Review Books. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2001. Advance Reading Copy/Proof. Softcover. Uncorrected proof. .

pb. Good+. All pages and cover are intact. Possible minor highlighting and marginalia. Ships from an indie bookstore in NYC.

Paperback. Good.

Paperback. Very Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

The New York Review Books Incorporated , pp. xiv + 155 . Papeback. New.

Introduction by Seamus Heaney. In near fine condition.

New York, NY: New York Review Books, 2001. Advance Reading Copy (ARC) . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY w/trace soil spot to front of blue softcover. Advance Reading Copy (Uncorrected Proof). Debut novel, and fictionalized account of his own childhood, from fiction writer & literary critic Darcy O'Brien (1939 - 1998), recipient of the 1978 Ernest Hemingway Award for best first novel. Los Angeles born O'Brien was son of silent film star George O'Brien (1899 - 1985) and actress Marguerite Churchill (1910 - 2000), co-star to John Wayne and Spencer Tracy. A Hollywood coming of age novel. A Way of Life, Like Any Other begins as "a way of life, like no other" ---- a glittery dream world of wealth, fame and showy estates --- father starred in Westerns, and mother a goddess of the silver screen. Then his parents' careers crash, so with it the marriage, and life transforms to "like any other" for young teenager O'Brien who struggles to keep faith… Leer más