The instant New York Times bestseller - Named a Best Book of the Year by TIME, NPR, People, Town & Country, and Air Mail 'Warm and perceptive.' --New York Times 'Griffin Dunne knows how to tell a story.' --Washington Post 'Dunne is a prospector for the incandescent detail.' --Los Angeles Times 'What 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's life and his ability to capture so much of it in these beautifully written pages.' --Anderson Cooper Griffin Dunne's 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 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's legendary LA launch party for Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. At
