The hero of Darcy O\'Brien\'s A Way of Life, Like Any Other is a child of Hollywood, and once his Life was a glittery dream.
In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature..
Since then he has published poetry, criticism, and translations that have established him as one of the leading poets of his generation.
Seamus Heaney\'s first poetry collection, Death of a Naturalist, appeared forty years ago.
His books include the novels The Silver Spooner and Margaret in Hollywood, critical studies of James Joyce and Patrick Kavanagh, and several Other works of nonfiction, among them Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers and The Hidden Pope.
O\'Brien\'s first novel, A Way of Life, Like Any Other, won the PEN/Hemingway award.
He attended Princeton and the University of California, Berkeley, and taught at the University of Tulsa.
About the Author: Darcy O\'Brien (1939-1998) was born in Los Angeles, the son of the movie stars George O\'Brien and Marguerite Churchill.
And their teenage son? How he struggles both to keep faith with his family and to get by himself, and what in the end he must do to break free, makes for a classic coming-of-age story--a novel that combines keen insight and devastating wit to hilarious and heartbreaking effect.
Lovesick and sex-crazed, the mOther sets out on an intercontinental quest for the right--or wrong--man, while her mild-mannered but manipulative former husband clings to his memories in California.
But his parents\' careers have crashed since then, and their marriage has broken up too.
The family enjoyed the high Life on their estate, Casa Fiesta.
His mOther was a goddess of the silver screen.
His father starred in Westerns.
The hero of Darcy O\'Brien\'s A Way of Life, Like Any Other is a child of Hollywood, and once his Life was a glittery dream
