John Gregory Dunne, Author . Knopf $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4143-5
The last novel of the late Dunne, who died in December 2003, reads rather like a smorgasbord of his previous nonfiction work doused with a heavy sauce of "ripped from the headlines" plotlines. The central narrative, which concerns the trial...
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John Gregory Dunne, Author Touchstone Books $9.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-74031-3
Tough-minded journalist Dunne's studies of the casual violence found in L.A., the arrogance of the rich, famous and/or powerful, and the vulgarity of Hollywood are on-target here, but his essays on the art of writing are flawed by macho posturing. ``
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John Gregory Dunne, Author Touchstone Books $8.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-72514-3
Dunne identifies four stages of the Irish-American experience: immigrant, outcast, assimilated, deracinated. By the end of what PW termed ``this mordant, defiant, raunchy, sarcastic memoir--a mix of self-revelation, travel sketches, ruminations,''...
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John Gregory Dunne, Author Plume Books $13.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-452-27495-2
This is the story of a 1940s Hollywood child star who resurfaces in the '90s as bag lady in Detroit, and of the screenwriter who accidentally rediscovers her. (Sept.)
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John Gregory Dunne, Author Simon & Schuster $18.45 (235p) ISBN 978-0-671-68852-3
Dunne identifies four stages of the Irish-American experience: immigrant, outcast, assimilated, deracinated. Growing up in Hartford, Conn., the Irish Catholic author who would one day write True Confessions felt like a social outcast, a ``harp''...
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John Gregory Dunne, Author Simon & Schuster $19.45 (287p) ISBN 978-0-671-67236-2
In his first collection of nonfiction since Quintana and Friends , Dunne returns to four themes familiar from his fiction: the casual violence to be found in Los Angeles; the arrogance of the rich, famous and/or powerful; the vulgarity of Hollywood;
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John Gregory Dunne, Author Random House (NY) $21 (203p) ISBN 978-0-679-45579-0
Novelist (Playland) and journalist Dunne makes much of his living by writing screenplays, and this journal covers the eight years it took between the time he and his wife, Joan Didion, were approached to write a screenplay based on Golden Girl, a...
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John Gregory Dunne, Author, Sharon DeLano, Editor Random House (NY) $25 (494p) ISBN 978-0-679-42427-7
Fitful, often contradictory memories of a former child film star's decade of fame and the cloaked brutality that surrounded her in the film industry give shape to Dunne's latest, enthralling novel, a tragic tale of behind-the-scenes Hollywood from...
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