{"product_id":"exiles-9780374532604","title":"Exiles","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBack in print, \"a wry and moving . . . rare and minute accounting of growing up.\" (\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExiles is the story of two glamorous people\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003eone, 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, Michael J. Arlen evokes\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003ewith humor and honesty\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003ehis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael J. Arlen is an Anglo-Armenian writer and former television critic for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of the acclaimed \u003ci\u003ePassage to Ararat\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG Classics, 2006), an autobiographical narrative of his Armenian ancestry, and \u003ci\u003eLiving-Room War\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Strauss \u0026 Giroux-3pl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50914033598738,"sku":"9780374532604","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a9437d67-a18c-4687-91d9-6ee2bf07ce44.jpg?v=1738803080","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/exiles-9780374532604","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}