Darcy O'Brien (1939–1998)

Autore di A Way of Life, Like Any Other

19 opere 1,118 membri 20 recensioni

Sull'Autore

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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno

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Fonte dell'immagine: OK Center for Poets & Writers

Opere di Darcy O'Brien

Popolari Recenti

A Way of Life, Like Any Other (1978) 310 copie

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

Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers (1985) 223 copie

Murder in Little Egypt (1989) 175 copie

A Dark and Bloody Ground (1993) 64 copie

Margaret in Hollywood (1991) 28 copie

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

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

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

Moment by Moment (1978) 9 copie

The Conscience of James Joyce (2015) 9 copie

The Silver Spooner (1981) 8 copie

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

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

Patrick Kavanagh (1975) 2 copie

Une vie comme une autre (2016) 1 copia

Vivendo Cada Momento 1 copia

Tal para cual (1993) 1 copia

Reflections on Literature and the Law (1987) 1 copia

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Informazioni generali

Nome canonico: O'Brien, Darcy
Data di nascita: 1939-07-16
Data di morte: 1998-03-02
Sesso: male
Nazionalità: USA
Luogo di nascita: Los Angeles, California, USA
Luogo di morte: Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Luogo di residenza: Santa Barbara, California, USA
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Berkeley, California, USA
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Pasadena, California, USA
Istruzione: University of California, Berkeley (MA ∙ PhD)
Cambridge University
Princeton University (AB)
Attività lavorative: professor of English
writer of multiple works of true crime
Relazioni: Churchill, Marguerite (mother)
O'Brien, George (father)
Organizzazioni: University of Tulsa
Pomona College
Premi e riconoscimenti: Fulbright Fellowship

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Recensioni

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

First edition

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RCornell | Oct 27, 2023 |

A Way of Life, Like Any Other: A Novel di 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.… (altro)

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CarltonC | 7 altre recensioni | Feb 10, 2023 |

Murder in Little Egypt di 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 altre recensioni | May 27, 2021 |

A way of life, like any other di 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.