The mighty Franks, a memoir, Michael Frank
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The mighty Franks, a memoir, Michael Frank
Language
eng
resource.biographical
collective biography
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non fiction
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The mighty Franks
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968245576
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Michael Frank
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a memoir
Summary
"'My feeling for Mike is something out of the ordinary, ' 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."--Front flap of jacket
Table Of Contents
Overheard -- Part I. The apartment -- Ogden, continued -- On Greenvalley Road -- Safe house -- Part II. My uncle's closet (in my aunt's house) -- Off the hill -- Five places, six scenes -- Last room -- Goodbye to the closet -- Fall and decline
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