{"product_id":"true-confessions-9781560258155","title":"True Confessions","description":"In 1940s Los Angeles, an unidentified murder victim is found bisected in a shadowy lot. A catchy nickname is given her in jest--\"The Virgin Tramp\"--and suddenly a \"nice little homicide that would have drifted off the front pages in a couple of days\" becomes a storm center. Two brothers, Tom and Des Spellacy, are at the heart of this powerful novel of Irish-Catholic life in Southern California just after World War II. Played in the film version by Robert Duvall and Robert De Niro respectively, Tom is a homicide detective and Des is a priest on the rise within the Church. The murder investigation provides the background against which are played the ever changing loyalties of the two brothers. Theirs is a world of favors and fixes, power and promises, inhabited by priests and pimps, cops and contractors, boxers and jockeys and lesbian fight promoters and lawyers who know how to put the fix in. A fast-paced and often hilarious classic of contemporary fiction, True Confessions is about a crime that has no solutions, only victims. More important, it is about the complex relationship between Tom and Des Spellacy, each tainted with the guilt and hostility that separate brothers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Gregory Dunne\u003c\/b\u003e was the author of six novels -- \u003ci\u003eVegas; True Confessions; Dutch Shea, Jr.; The Red White and Blue; Playland\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eNothing Lost\u003c\/i\u003e -- and seven works of nonfiction, among which are the memoir-like \u003ci\u003eHarp\u003c\/i\u003e and two books that look at Hollywood, \u003ci\u003eThe Studio\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMonster\u003c\/i\u003e. Born in West Hartford, Connecticut, in 1932, he graduated from Princeton in 1954. He collaborated with his wife, the writer Joan Didion, on many screenplays, including \u003ci\u003ePanic in Needle Park\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTrue Confessions\u003c\/i\u003e. John Gregory Dunne died in December 2003.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Da Capo Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50544710418706,"sku":"9781560258155","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8f155605-ef06-4794-b9cc-35ad3fa01a70.jpg?v=1731534617","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/true-confessions-9781560258155","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}