Darcy O'Brien (1939–1998)

Auteur van A Way of Life, Like Any Other

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Over de Auteur

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 toon meer 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) toon minder

Bevat de namen: Darcy O'Brien, Darcy O' Brien

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Werken van Darcy O'Brien

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A Way of Life, Like Any Other (1978) 311 exemplaren

The Hidden Pope: The Untold Story of a Lifelong Friendship That Is Changing the Relationship Between Catholics and Jews… (1998) 231 exemplaren

Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers (1985) 222 exemplaren

Murder in Little Egypt (1989) 175 exemplaren

A Dark and Bloody Ground (1993) 64 exemplaren

Margaret in Hollywood (1991) 28 exemplaren

Power to Hurt : Inside a Judge's Chambers: Sexual Assault, Corruption, and the Ultimate Reversal of Justice for Women (1996) 28 exemplaren

The Hillside Stranglers: The Inside Story of the Killing Spree That Terrorized Los Angeles (2017) 11 exemplaren

Moment by moment (1978) 10 exemplaren

American Murder: Three True Crime Classics (2017) 10 exemplaren

The Conscience of James Joyce (2015) 9 exemplaren

The Silver Spooner (1981) 8 exemplaren

W. R. Rodgers (1909-1969) (1975) 3 exemplaren

El Papa Oculto (Spanish Edition) (1999) 3 exemplaren

Patrick Kavanagh (1975) 2 exemplaren

Une vie comme une autre (2016) 1 exemplaar

Vivendo Cada Momento 1 exemplaar

Tal para cual (1993) 1 exemplaar

Reflections on Literature and the Law (1987) 1 exemplaar

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Gangbare naam: O'Brien, Darcy
Geboortedatum: 1939-07-16
Overlijdensdatum: 1998-03-02
Geslacht: male
Nationaliteit: USA
Geboorteplaats: Los Angeles, California, USA
Plaats van overlijden: Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Woonplaatsen: Santa Barbara, California, USA
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Berkeley, California, USA
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Pasadena, California, USA
Opleiding: University of California, Berkeley (MA ∙ PhD)
Cambridge University
Princeton University (AB)
Beroepen: professor of English
writer of multiple works of true crime
Relaties: Churchill, Marguerite (mother)
O'Brien, George (father)
Organisaties: University of Tulsa
Pomona College
Prijzen en onderscheidingen: Fulbright Fellowship

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Two of a Kind: The Hillside Strangler door Darcy O'Brien

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RCornell | Oct 27, 2023 |

A Way of Life, Like Any Other: A Novel door Darcy O'Brien

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.… (meer)

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CarltonC | 7 andere besprekingen | Feb 10, 2023 |

Murder in Little Egypt door Darcy O'Brien

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.

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amoderndaybelle | 5 andere besprekingen | May 27, 2021 |

A way of life, like any other door Darcy O'Brien

I disliked the first six chapters. Seven through eleven are probably the best in the book. Heaney's praise in the introduction seemed extravagant.