Regards
Subtitle: the selected nonfiction of John Gregory Dunne
By: foreword by Calvin Trillin.
Contributors: Trillin, Calvin.
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press; Thunder's mouth press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9781560258162
Subjects: American essays
Description: No writer captured the tragic absurdity of late-twentieth-century America better than John Gregory Dunne. For over forty years, he cast an unsparing eye on contemporary America, never flinching from the unpleasant truths he saw around him. Whether novels, screenplays, or nonfiction, his work was marked with a droll wit and a pointed cynicism that often examined buried aspects of public and private life in Hollywood and America at large. This book is a celebration of Dunne's best nonfiction, from frank observations on the film industry, politics, sports, and popular culture to tender reflections on what it was like to raise an adopted daughter. The collection spans his entire career, including his depictions of Las Vegas and an L.A. film studio, and essays from both of his existing compilations, as well as the essays from the last fifteen years of his life, never before collected.--From publisher description.
Table of contents: title: Sneak; title: Tinsel; title: Gone Hollywood; title: Hessians; title: Dealing; title: Hollywood : opening moves; title: Quebec zero; title: Induction day; title: Memento Delano; title: On the Kennedys; title: An American education; title: To live and die in L.A.; title: The Simpsons; title: Buck; title: "Poet of resentment"; title: Birth of a salesman; title: Star!; title: Pauline; title: Critical; title: A star is born; title: Your time is my time; title: Death of a Yale man; title: Quintana; title: Fractures; title: Memories of a left fielder; title: Eureka!; title: Regards; title: Laying pipe; title: The Paris Review interview.