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The instant New York Times bestseller!<\/p>\n

\u201cWarm and perceptive.\u201d\u2014New York Times<\/p>\n

\u201cGriffin Dunne knows how to tell a story.”\u2014Washington Post<\/p>\n

“Dunne is a prospector for the incandescent detail.\u201d\u2014Los Angeles Times<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a remarkable and moving story filled with twists and turns, the most famous of faces, and a complex family revealed with loving candor. I was blown away by Griffin Dunne\u2019s life and his ability to capture so much of it in these beautifully written pages.\u201d\u2014Anderson Cooper<\/p>\n

Griffin Dunne\u2019s memoir of growing up among larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan finds wicked humor and glimmers of light in even the most painful of circumstances<\/p>\n

At eight, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin, he attended his aunt Joan Didion and uncle John Gregory Dunne\u2019s legendary LA launch party for Tom Wolfe\u2019s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. At sixteen, he got kicked out of boarding school, ending his institutional education for good. In his early twenties, he shared an apartment in Manhattan\u2019s Hotel Des Artistes with his best friend and soulmate Carrie Fisher while she was filming some sci-fi movie called Star Wars and he was a struggling actor working as a popcorn concessionaire at Radio City Music Hall. A few years later, he produced and starred in the now-iconic film After Hours, directed by Martin Scorsese. In the midst of it all, Griffin\u2019s twenty-two-year-old sister, Dominique, a rising star in Hollywood, was brutally strangled to death by her ex-boyfriend, leading to one of the most infamous public trials of the 1980s. The outcome was a travesty of justice that marked the beginning of their father Dominick Dunne\u2019s career as a crime reporter for Vanity Fair and a victims’ rights activist.<\/p>\n

And yet, for all its boldface cast of characters and jaw-dropping scenes, The Friday Afternoon Club is no mere celebrity memoir. It is, down to its bones, a family story that embraces the poignant absurdities and best and worst efforts of its loveable, infuriating, funny, and moving characters\u2014its author most of all.<\/p>\n

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Customers find the memoir interesting and filled with stories. They also enjoy the writing style, describing it as lively, witty, and detailed. Readers describe the story as poignant, heartbreaking, and triumphant. They mention the book is an enjoyable biographical read about the Dunne family. Customers describe the book as revealing, insightful, and beautiful.<\/span><\/p>\n

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