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A Difficult Woman

Paperback • 2012 • English

A Difficult Woman

By Alice Kessler-Harris

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About the book

Lillian Hellman was a giant of twentieth-century letters and a groundbreaking figure as one of the most successful female playwrights on Broadway. Yet the author of "The Little Foxes" and "Toys in the Attic" is today remembered more as a toxic, bitter survivor and literary fabulist, the woman of whom Mary McCarthy said, "Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'" In "A Difficult Woman," renowned historian Alice Kessler-Harris undertakes a feat few would dare to attempt: a reclam...Show more

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ISBN

9781608193950

Publisher

Bloomsbury Press

Published year

2012

Language

English

Original title

A Difficult Woman

Format

Paperback

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