Darcy O'Brien (1939–1998)
Teoksen A Way of Life, Like Any Other tekijä
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Darcy O'Brien 1939-1998 Darcy O'Brien was an award-winning author of fiction and literary criticism born on July 16, 1939 in Los Angeles, California. O'Brien was best known for his work in the genre of true crime. His first novel, A Way of Life, Like Any Other, won the 1978 Ernest Hemingway award näytä lisää for best first novel. In 1997, O'Brien won the Edgar Allen Poe award for Power to Hurt. His other works include: Two of a Kind: The Story of the Hillside Stranglers, Murder in Little Egypt, Moment by Moment and The Hidden Pope. O'Brien attended Princeton University and University of Cambridge, and received a master's degree and doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. From 1965 to 1978 he was a professor of English at Pomona College. In 1978 he moved to Tulsa, and taught at the University of Tulsa until 1995. On March 2, 1998, O'Brien died of a heart attack in Tulsa. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Tekijän teokset
The Hidden Pope: The Untold Story of a Lifelong Friendship That Is Changing the Relationship Between Catholics and Jews… (1998) 231 kappaletta
Power to Hurt : Inside a Judge's Chambers: Sexual Assault, Corruption, and the Ultimate Reversal of Justice for Women (1996) 28 kappaletta
The Hillside Stranglers: The Inside Story of the Killing Spree That Terrorized Los Angeles (2017) 11 kappaletta
Vivendo Cada Momento 1 kappale
Merkitty avainsanalla
Yleistieto
- Kanoninen nimi
- O'Brien, Darcy
- Syntymäaika
- 1939-07-16
- Kuolinaika
- 1998-03-02
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Kuolinpaikka
- Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Santa Barbara, California, USA
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Berkeley, California, USA
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Pasadena, California, USA - Koulutus
- University of California, Berkeley (MA ∙ PhD)
Cambridge University
Princeton University (AB) - Ammatit
- professor of English
writer of multiple works of true crime - Suhteet
- Churchill, Marguerite (mother)
O'Brien, George (father) - Organisaatiot
- University of Tulsa
Pomona College - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Fulbright Fellowship
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Two of a Kind: The Hillside Strangler Tekijä: Darcy O'Brien
First edition
A strange book that reads as a fictionalised autobiography of a boy growing up in 1950’s Los Angeles/Hollywood with parents who were in the movies, but had fallen on hard times (relatively) by the time he was a teenager.
The writing style feels detached and mannered, and Seamus Heaney in the introduction to my edition describes it as giving “a heightened, necessarily overdone picture of what his childhood and adolescence were like”. However, after the first few chapters I fell into the rhythm of the language and was moderately engaged, but the author seemed determined to intentionally undermine the emotional impact whenever created by his narrative.… (lisätietoja)
The writing style feels detached and mannered, and Seamus Heaney in the introduction to my edition describes it as giving “a heightened, necessarily overdone picture of what his childhood and adolescence were like”. However, after the first few chapters I fell into the rhythm of the language and was moderately engaged, but the author seemed determined to intentionally undermine the emotional impact whenever created by his narrative.… (lisätietoja)
I hate when I start a book and can't focus on it due to the narrator. Sometimes it's their ridiculous accents or the way they mispronounce a word, etc... I'm not sure exactly what it is about this narrator but I'm just not connecting. Maybe I'll actually read this one in print. I'm not doing the audiobook though. Two and a half hours in and I still can't connect.
I disliked the first six chapters. Seven through eleven are probably the best in the book. Heaney's praise in the introduction seemed extravagant.
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