Michael J. Arlen

Exiles Michael J. Arlen Reprint edition

Back in print, ?a wry and moving . . . rare and minute accounting of growing up.? (Time)

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, Michael J. Arlen evokes?with humor 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.