Author: Michael Frank
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374715963
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
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.
The Mighty Franks
Author: Michael Frank
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374715963
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374715963
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
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.
The Mighty Franks
Author: Michael Frank
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 1443452017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
**One of the Telegraph's 50 best books of the year!**Longlisted for the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize** The boundaries of family life are upended in this memoir, which turns on the author’s lifelong relationship with his enthralling yet deeply possessive aunt, a powerhouse Hollywood screenwriter whose turbulent nature slowly reveals itself. All his life Michael Frank has been fawned over by his aunt, who was a Hollywood screenwriter in the 1970s. She loves him more than life itself. At first, when he is a young boy, this is a very good thing. He takes refuge in her adoration and attention. But soon things turn bad and her hold on the entire family begins to spiral out of control in increasingly unpredictable and volatile ways.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 1443452017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
**One of the Telegraph's 50 best books of the year!**Longlisted for the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize** The boundaries of family life are upended in this memoir, which turns on the author’s lifelong relationship with his enthralling yet deeply possessive aunt, a powerhouse Hollywood screenwriter whose turbulent nature slowly reveals itself. All his life Michael Frank has been fawned over by his aunt, who was a Hollywood screenwriter in the 1970s. She loves him more than life itself. At first, when he is a young boy, this is a very good thing. He takes refuge in her adoration and attention. But soon things turn bad and her hold on the entire family begins to spiral out of control in increasingly unpredictable and volatile ways.
The Mighty Franks
Author: Michael Frank
Publisher:
ISBN: 0374210128
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A ... memoir with elements of Auntie Mame and Grey Gardens that chronicles the world of one California family dominated by a powerhouse screenwriter"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 0374210128
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A ... memoir with elements of Auntie Mame and Grey Gardens that chronicles the world of one California family dominated by a powerhouse screenwriter"--
The Mighty Franks
Author: Michael Frank
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9781443452007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The boundaries of family life are upended in this memoir of the author’s lifelong relationship with his enthralling yet deeply possessive aunt, a powerhouse Hollywood screenwriter whose turbulent nature slowly reveals itself All his life, Michael Frank was fawned over by his aunt, who was a Hollywood screenwriter in the 1970s. She loved him more than life itself. At first, when he was a young boy, this was a very good thing; he took refuge in her adoration and attention. But things soon turned bad, and her hold on the entire family began to spiral out of control in increasingly unpredictable and volatile ways.
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9781443452007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The boundaries of family life are upended in this memoir of the author’s lifelong relationship with his enthralling yet deeply possessive aunt, a powerhouse Hollywood screenwriter whose turbulent nature slowly reveals itself All his life, Michael Frank was fawned over by his aunt, who was a Hollywood screenwriter in the 1970s. She loved him more than life itself. At first, when he was a young boy, this was a very good thing; he took refuge in her adoration and attention. But things soon turned bad, and her hold on the entire family began to spiral out of control in increasingly unpredictable and volatile ways.
Behind the Bookcase
Author: Barbara Lowell
Publisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 1728405475
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Anne Franks diary is a gift to the world because of Miep Gies. One of the protectors of the Frank family, Miep recovered the diary after the family was discovered by Nazis, and then returned it to Otto Frank after World War II. Displaced from her own home as a child during World War I, Miep had great empathy for Anne, and she found wayslike talking about Hollywood gossip and fashion trendsto engage her. The story of their relationshipand the impending danger to the family in hidingunfolds in this unique perspective of Anne Franks widely known story.
Publisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 1728405475
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Anne Franks diary is a gift to the world because of Miep Gies. One of the protectors of the Frank family, Miep recovered the diary after the family was discovered by Nazis, and then returned it to Otto Frank after World War II. Displaced from her own home as a child during World War I, Miep had great empathy for Anne, and she found wayslike talking about Hollywood gossip and fashion trendsto engage her. The story of their relationshipand the impending danger to the family in hidingunfolds in this unique perspective of Anne Franks widely known story.
Anne Frank
Author: Sid Jacobson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0809026856
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A graphic account of Anne Frank's life and her diary, as well as the Frank family's history before and after their time in the secret annex.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0809026856
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A graphic account of Anne Frank's life and her diary, as well as the Frank family's history before and after their time in the secret annex.
Alas, Babylon
Author: Pat Frank
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060741872
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The classic apocalyptic novel that stunned the world.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060741872
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The classic apocalyptic novel that stunned the world.
Big Frank's Fire Truck
Author: Leslie McGuire
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0307982777
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Big Frank tells young readers all about firefighting and the many other important jobs firefighters do: fire safety training, fire inspection, helping at accident scenes, and more. It's all in a day's--and night's--work for our firefighting friend and his crew. The detailed full-color illustrations in this paperback book will fascinate readers.
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0307982777
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Big Frank tells young readers all about firefighting and the many other important jobs firefighters do: fire safety training, fire inspection, helping at accident scenes, and more. It's all in a day's--and night's--work for our firefighting friend and his crew. The detailed full-color illustrations in this paperback book will fascinate readers.
Isle of Palms
Author: Dorothea Benton Frank
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440622264
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank takes readers on a rollicking ride in this Lowcountry tale about a woman whose unconventional friends and family show her the real meaning of unconditional love. Anna Lutz Abbot considers herself independent and happy—until one steamy summer when her collegiate daughter comes home a very different person, her wild and wonderful ex-husband shows up on her doorstep, and her flamboyant new best friend takes up with Anna’s father. And the already hot temperatures are cranked up another ten degrees by Anna’s own fling with Arthur, who is, heaven help her, a Yankee. Now Anna must face the fact that she isn’t as in control of her life as she’d thought. And she must find a way to deal with the whole truth—not just the comfortable parts.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440622264
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank takes readers on a rollicking ride in this Lowcountry tale about a woman whose unconventional friends and family show her the real meaning of unconditional love. Anna Lutz Abbot considers herself independent and happy—until one steamy summer when her collegiate daughter comes home a very different person, her wild and wonderful ex-husband shows up on her doorstep, and her flamboyant new best friend takes up with Anna’s father. And the already hot temperatures are cranked up another ten degrees by Anna’s own fling with Arthur, who is, heaven help her, a Yankee. Now Anna must face the fact that she isn’t as in control of her life as she’d thought. And she must find a way to deal with the whole truth—not just the comfortable parts.
Typhoon Attack
Author: Norman L. R. Franks
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811706435
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The rocket-firing Typhoon fighter played a pivotal role in the Allies' success in the air and on the ground in World War II, from the Normandy beachhead to the Battle of the Bulge and the final struggle for Germany. In this lively, dramatic account of aerial combat, Norman Franks describes what it was really like to fly at low level and attack trains, ships, and tanks; to fire lethal high-explosive rockets into radar or V-1 sites; or to roll over at 12,000 feet and then roar down into an inferno of flak to dive-bomb an enemy position. --Book Jacket.
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811706435
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The rocket-firing Typhoon fighter played a pivotal role in the Allies' success in the air and on the ground in World War II, from the Normandy beachhead to the Battle of the Bulge and the final struggle for Germany. In this lively, dramatic account of aerial combat, Norman Franks describes what it was really like to fly at low level and attack trains, ships, and tanks; to fire lethal high-explosive rockets into radar or V-1 sites; or to roll over at 12,000 feet and then roar down into an inferno of flak to dive-bomb an enemy position. --Book Jacket.