<p><b>THE INSTANT<i> NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER</b><br><b><br>'Warm and perceptive' <i>New York Times</i></b><br><br><b>'So honest and funny and smart' <i>Observer</i></b><br><br><b>'Griffin Dunne knows how to tell a story' <i>Washington Post</i></b><br><br><b>'Dunne is a prospector for the incandescent detail' <i>Los Angeles Times</i></b><br><br><b>'Full of light, life and colour...a startling tale of precarious American privilege, spotlighting a family that is blessed and cursed' <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br>At eight, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin, he attended his aunt Joan Didion's legendary LA launch party for Tom Wolfe's <i>The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test</i>. In his early twenties, he shared a Manhattan apartment with his best friend and soulmate Carrie Fisher while she was filming some sci-fi movie called <i>Star Wars</i> and he was a struggling actor selling popcorn at Radio City Music Hall. A few years later, he prod