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The Mighty Franks: A Memoir - Michael Frank, 9780374537807, paperback
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- 9780374537807
- Book Title
- Mighty Franks : a Memoir
- Item Length
- 8.6 in
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Social Science
- Topic
- Extended Family, Personal Memoirs, Sociology / Urban
- Item Width
- 5.6 in
- Item Weight
- 14.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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WINNER OF THE 2018 JG-WINGATE PRIZE A psychologically acute memoir about an unusual Hollywood family by Michael Frank, who "brings Proustian acuity and razor-sharp prose to family dramas as primal, and eccentrically insular, as they come" ( The Atlantic) "My feeling for Mike is something out of the ordi - nary," Michael Frank overhears his aunt telling his mother when he is a boy of eight. "It's stronger than I am. I cannot explain it . . . I love him beyond life itself." With this indelible bit of eavesdropping, we fall into the spellbinding world of The Mighty Franks . The family is uncommonly close: Michael's childless Auntie Hankie and Uncle Irving, glamorous Hollywood screenwriters, are doubly related-- Hankie is his father's sister, and Irving is his mother's brother. The two families live near each other in Laurel Canyon. In this strangely intertwined world, even the author's grandmothers--who dislike each other--share a nearby apartment. Strangest of all is the way Auntie Hankie, with her extravagant personality, comes to bend the wider family to her will. Talented, mercurial, and lavish with her love, she divides Michael from his parents and his two younger brothers as she takes charge of his education, guiding him to the right books to read (Proust, not Zola), the right painters to admire (Matisse, not Pollock), the right architectural styles to embrace (period, not modern--or mo-derne , as she pronounces the word, with palpable disdain). She trains his mind and his eye--until that eye begins to see on its own. When this "son" Hankie longs for grows up and begins to turn away from her, her moods darken, and a series of shattering scenes compel Michael to reconstruct both himself and his family narrative as he tries to reconcile the woman he once adored with the troubled figure he discovers her to be. In its portrayal of this fascinating, singularly polarizing figure, the boy in her thrall, and the man that boy becomes, The Mighty Franks will speak to any reader who has ever struggled to find an independent voice amid the turbulence of family life.
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374537801
ISBN-13
9780374537807
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239731654
Product Key Features
Book Title
Mighty Franks : a Memoir
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Extended Family, Personal Memoirs, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Social Science
Number of Pages
320 Pages
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Item Length
8.6 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
5.6 in
Item Weight
14.7 Oz
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Trade
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Dewey Edition
23
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