149 pp. Blue cloth backstrip over blue paper boards, with the dust jacket. Slight edgewear to jacket spine head and tail, bottom corner of front flap clipped (as common with Norton books from the era). Board edges a little sunned. O'Brien's first book, a classic Los Angeles novel. Darcy O'Brien (1939-1998) was the son of the movie stars George O'Brien and Marguerite Churchill, and this book is a thinly disguised look at growing up in Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s. Reissued by New York Review Books in 2001, the first edition is somewhat uncommon. Seller Inventory # 2330

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Title: A Way of Life, Like Any Other [first edition]

Publisher: W.W. Norton, New York

Publication Date: 1977

Edition: First edition.

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