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DIAMOND, Jason: Searching for John Hughes: Or Everything I Thought I Needed to Know About Life I Learned from Watching '80s Movies. New York, William Morrow, 2016. First Edition (Advanced Uncorrected Proof). Softcover wraps, 281 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Memoir / 80s Film Influences / American Film Directors – John Hughes, 1950 – 2009. Condition: Good Plus. Single lower right hand corner crease and light wear to wraps. Otherwise all pages clean, unmarked and readable. "In [this book] Jason tells how a Jewish kid from a broken home in a Chicago suburb found comfort and connection in the likewise broken lives in the suburban Chicago of John Hughes's oeuvre...Though his original biography of Hughes has long since been abandoned, Jason has discovered he is a writer through and through. And the adversity of going for broke has now been transformed into a really, really good story. A memoir of growing up, this is a tale of what comes after the 'Go for it!' part of the command to young creatives to… Read More