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The hero of Darcy O’Brien’s A Way of Life, Like Any Other is a child of Hollywood, and once his life was a glittery dream. His father starred in Westerns. His mother was a goddess of the silver screen. The family enjoyed the high life on their estate, Casa Fiesta. But his parents’ careers have crashed since then, and their marriage has ...
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 inc
1 de ene. de 2001 · 1,213 ratings145 reviews. The hero of Darcy O'Brien's A Way of Life, Like Any Other is a child of Hollywood, and once his life was a glittery dream. His father starred in Westerns. His mother was a goddess of the silver screen. The family enjoyed the high life on their estate, Casa Fiesta. But his parents' careers have crashed since then, and ...
1 de ene. de 1978 · A Way of Life, Like Any Other. Hardcover – January 1, 1978. The hero of Darcy O'Brien's A Way of Life, Like Any Other is a child of Hollywood, and once his life was a glittery dream. His father starred in Westerns. His mother was a goddess of the silver screen. The family enjoyed the high life on their estate, Casa Fiesta.
13 de may. de 2013 · Hillside Stranglers. Darcy O'Brien. Premier Digital Publishing, May 13, 2013 - True Crime. For weeks that fall, the body count of sexually violated, brutally murdered young women escalated. With increasing alarm Los Angeles newspapers headlined the deeds of a serial killer they named the Hillside Strangler.
31 de ago. de 2001 · Darcy O'Brien grew up in Beverly Hills in the 1940s and'50s, the son of Hollywood stars in their days of glory and sunset. He wrote one of the very best novels ever to come out of that world. A Way of Life, Like Any Other is a triumphant miracle of style, with a narrator at once deadly and compassionate, capable of farce and heartbreak, lyricism and irony.
1 de jul. de 2014 · Darcy O’Brien (1939–1998) was born in Los Angeles, California. He is a bestselling author of eleven works of fiction and nonfiction, including the PEN/Hemingway Award–winning novel A Way of Life, Like Any Other, based on his experiences with his movie-star parents, George O’Brien and Marguerite Churchill; The Hidden Pope, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; The Hillside Stranglers, which ...
