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75/100Critics
67/100Scholars
Author:
Griffin Dunne
Publisher:
Penguin Press
Date:
June 11, 2024
A memoir and coming-of-age story chronicling the successes and disappointments, wit and wildness of the actor, producer, and director Griffin Dunne and his multigenerational family of larger-than-life characters, including his uncle and aunt, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion.
What The Reviewers Say
As a movie-business memoir, it is brisk and classy. Dunne’s sex and drugs years give it a Bret Easton Ellis feel, without quite the same level of brashness, and there is plenty of name-dropping, though most of it is well earned.
Dunne largely bears...slings and arrows with good humor and equanimity, conscious, perhaps, that in retelling them he becomes the hero of the joke. He gets terrific mileage from his own bad luck.
So honest and funny and smart.
By turns quirky, candid, passionate, heart-rending and inspiring, The Friday Club is a splendidly told tale of the tragicomedy we call life..
