A generous, starry book that veers into deeper emotional waters than your standard chronicle of well-connected Hollywood...a novelistic and compelling account of a life, and a self-deprecating guide to the Dunnes' many highs and lows. It is a fond yet riveting family portrait - Guardian

So honest and funny and smart...What a guy, I kept thinking, as I wolfed his book down -- Rachel Cooke - Observer

A first-rate memoirist...It is no small thing to write a bereavement memoir with the shadow of Joan Didion over your shoulder, but Dunne does not suffer for the comparison...[a] wise, funny and generous book - The Times

A riveting memoir...moving and effective -- Roger Lewis - Mail on Sunday

Warm and perceptive - New York Times

Griffin Dunne knows how to tell a story - Washington Post

Dunne is a prospector for the incandescent detail - Los Angeles Times

Generous, funny and perceptive - Literary Review

Irish touchstones, such as wit, guilt and silence, are all here, spangled with late-20th-century Hollywood stardust . . . Heartbreaking and wry - Wall Street Journal

Captivating...beyond entertaining, honest in confronting heartbreaks and jealousies, often genuinely funny, and somehow understated... Dunne's storytelling is buoyant, his prose crisp; he's most definitely a writer - Booklist

Despite the glamorous backdrops in California and New York, the author portrays a family whose core human experie