"Exiles" is the story of two glamorous people - one, a beautiful aristocrat; the other, a self-made man, one of the most famous authors of the 1920s. In this slender volume, which was nominated for the 1970 National Book Award and helped reestablish the memoir as a genre, their son evokes - with humour and honesty - his parents' seemingly charmed life in Hollywood and New York, his own childhood spent between homes and boarding schools, and the decline of a family full of love, joy, and pride in one another: in other words, a family as ordinary as it is unusual.
Reviews
"A wry and moving.... Rare and minute accounting of growing up" Time "One would be forgiven for wanting to read Exiles on the merit of its name-dropping glamour alone, even if glamour is only the tenth best thing about the book." - Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times"



Book Information
ISBN 9780374532604
Author Michael Arlen
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Weight(grams) 228g
Dimensions(mm) 208mm * 138mm * 15mm