Exiles (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Michael J. Arlen
- First Published: 1970
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: 1920-1964
- Setting: England, France, Canada, and the United States
- Principal Characters: Michael Arlen, Atalanta Mercati Arlen, Michael J. Arlen, Venetia Arlen
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Family or family life, Memory, Mothers, Parents and children, Exile or expatriates, Writing, Fathers, Biography, Isolation
Form and Content
Michael J. Arlen’s Exiles is a biographical memoir focusing on his life as the son of novelist Michael Arlen and his wife, Atalanta. Opening with the months leading up to Arlen’s father’s death from cancer, the book skips back and forth through the lives of Arlen and his parents, presenting his mother’s and father’s families, their early lives, their meeting and marriage, and his own childhood years in Europe and the United States.
Arlen’s father was born Dikran Kouyoumdjian, the son of Armenian parents who had fled to England at the...
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