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The Friday Afternoon Club

A Family Memoir

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By: Griffin Dunne
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At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin, he attended his aunt Joan Didion's legendary L.A. party for the publication of Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. In his early 20s, 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 Star Wars and he was a struggling actor working as a popcorn seller at Radio City Music Hall.

A few years later, he produced and starred in the now-iconic film After Hours, directed by Martin Scorsese. In the midst of it all, Griffin's 22-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, which ended in a travesty of justice that also somehow marked the beginning of their father Dominick Dunne's career as a bestselling author of true crime narratives.

And yet, for all its bold-face cast of characters and jaw-dropping scenes, The Friday Afternoon Club is no celebrity memoir. It is, down to its bones, a family story that brilliantly embraces the poignant absurdities and best and worst efforts of its loveable, infuriating, funny and moving characters - its author most of all - finding wicked, self-deprecating humour and glints of surprising light in even the most harrowing and painful of circumstances.©2024 Griffin Dunne (P)2024 Penguin Random House LLC Art & Literature Authors Entertainment & Celebrities Memoir Funny Witty Heartfelt Thought-Provoking Celebrity New York
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Could not stop listening. Superb observations of family and friends-all done with such affectionate recall. A charming scamp of a man who is very funny. I rather fell in love with him..

Outstanding Memoir

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I was recommended this book by a very dear friend and I enjoyed it so much. From the deep roots of the family to the loving portraits of all the members Griffin Dunne took the reader along with him. My only criticism was that it ended, I wa ted to carry on going with him until the present day.

Exceptional story well told

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Inhaled, gorgeousness! Griffin’s voice is utter perfection. So moving. A real treat! Highly recommend. 10/10

Pure joy!

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Is there anyone more connected than this man? Talk about 3 degrees of separation hit with painful family memories and lots of love this is a beautifully written memoir about a life full of happenings.

What a life

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There’s nothing about this audiobook I didn’t like. I first encountered Griffin Dunne in the film After Hours. His real life, bafflingly, somewhat reflects the film. On steroids.

A stranger than fiction story told with a great sense of humour.

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