In this tour de force, Arlen focuses on the people, extraordinary processes, and lunacies involved in the making of one thirty-second television commercial

Thirty Seconds

Business & Money

Arlen, Michael J.

Marketing & Sales

Penguin??Books

Television, its role in society, and its transforming effects is the major concern of thirty-six essays

Living-room War

Humor & Entertainment

Television

Considering various aspects of life in the "television age," Arlen explores the development of this medium, its effects on our outlooks of nature, sex, and politics, and the ways in which mass media controls us

The Camera Age

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

A profile of his parents accompanies the author's account of his search for his lost Armenian heritage, and the history, culture, and character of Armenia

Passage to Ararat: Exiles

History

Russia

Tom Avery, a New York journalist approaching forty, takes his pretty, young wife, Catherine, to meet his estranged father, film director Samuel Avery, at his New Mexico ranch, in a story about the dangers of love

Say Goodbye to Sam (Contemporary American Fiction)

Literature & Fiction

Exiles

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Andre Deutsch

Back in print, “a wry and moving . . . rare and minute accounting of growing up.” (Time)Exiles is the story of two glamorous people—one, a beautiful aristocrat; the other, a self-made man, one of the most famous authors of the 1920s. In this slender volume, which was nominated for the 1970 National Book Award and helped reestablish the memoir as a genre, Michael J. Arlen evokes—with humor and honesty—his parents’ seemingly charmed life in Hollywood and New York, his own childhood spent between homes and boarding schools, and the decline of a family full of love, joy, and pride in one another: in other words, a family as ordinary as it is unusual.

Comics & Graphic Novels

Publishers

Ballantine Books

Passage to Ararat

In Passage to Ararat, which received the National Book Award in 1976, Michael J. Arlen goes beyond the portrait of his father, the famous Anglo-Armenian novelist of the 1920s, that he created in Exiles to try to discover what his father had tried to forget: Armenia and what it meant to be an Armenian, a descendant of a proud people whom conquerors had for centuries tried to exterminate. But perhaps most affectingly, Arlen tells a story as large as a whole people yet as personal as the uneasy bond between a father and a son, offering a masterful account of the affirmation and pain of kinship.

View from Highway 1

Considering various aspects of life in the "television age," Arlen explores the development of this medium, its effects on our outlooks of nature, sex, and politics, and the ways in which mass media controls us

The Camera Age: Essays on Television

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

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Thirty Seconds

Living-room War

The Camera Age

Passage to Ararat: Exiles

Say Goodbye to Sam (Contemporary American Fiction)

Exiles

Exiles

Passage to Ararat

View from Highway 1

The Camera Age: Essays on Television