{"product_id":"the-friday-afternoon-club-a-family-memoir","title":"The Friday Afternoon Club : A Family Memoir","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"expandHeader accFont\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003eSummary\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"desc_summary0593652843-arrow\" class=\"columnSpaced icon-drop-up-icon-01 iconDropDown\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column icon-glasses-icon iconSVG enhancedGlasses\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"desc_summary0593652843-content\" class=\"expandContent\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eGriffin 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt 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\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eAt sixteen, he got kicked out of boarding school, ending his institutional education for good. In his early twenties, he shared an apartment in Manhattan’s Hotel Des Artistes with his best friend and soulmate Carrie Fisher while she was filming some sci-fi movie called\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eStar Wars\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand 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\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter Hours\u003c\/i\u003e, directed by Martin Scorsese. In the midst of it all, Griffin’s 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’s career as a crime reporter for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand a victims' rights activist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd yet, for all its boldface cast of characters and jaw-dropping scenes,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Friday Afternoon Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis 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—its author most of all.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"expandContent\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"expandContent\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eGriffin Dunne\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e has been an actor, producer, and director since the late 1970s. Among his work, he produced and acted in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter Hours\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; he directed \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePractical Magic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and the documentary \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Center Will Not Hold\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e about his aunt, Joan Didion. Griffin and his dog, Mary, live in the East Village of Manhattan.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PRH (Penguin Random House)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47192889491670,"sku":"9780593652848","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/8492\/0022\/files\/9780593652848_625ad.jpg?v=1755974479","url":"https:\/\/www.riverfrontbooks.com\/products\/the-friday-afternoon-club-a-family-memoir","provider":"Riverfront Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}