Publication

2002-05-28 - Simon & Schuster

Language

English

Word Count

92,000 words, Guess

Page Count

368 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCPN2287.F55 M49 2002

Description

This brillant father-son biography explores the scandalous life of movie star Errol Flynn and his son's equally doomed and glamorous life as a war photographer in Vietnam. (Review) : Literary critic and biographer Meyers traces the tragic similarities between Hollywood legend Errol Flynn and his son Sean, a freewheeling war photographer who died in the Vietnamese conflict. Errol Flynn's decadent lifestyle is legendary, and semifictional accounts abound, including his own My Wicked, Wick Ways.

First Sentence

On April 6, 1970, the war photographer Sean Flynn-the brave, charismatic son of Errol Flynn-rode his motorcycle into a roadblock, was captured by the Vietcong and vanished forever into the jungle.

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