Pentimento

Author: Lillian Hellman

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  • : $45.00 NZD
  • : 9780316352888
  • : Little, Brown & Company
  • : Little, Brown and Company
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  • : March 2000
  • : United States
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  • : Lillian Hellman
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Barcode 9780316352888
9780316352888

Description

Caustic, brilliant, uncompromising, accomplished, Lillian Hellman, one writer noted, can "take the tops off bottles with her teeth". Her career as a playwright began in 1938 with The Children's Hour, the first of seven plays that would bring her international attention and praise. 


In this widely praised follow-up to her National Book Award-winning first volume of memoirs, An Unfinished Woman, Hellman looks back at some of the people who, wittingly or unwittingly, exerted profound influence on her development as a woman and a writer. The portraits include Hellman's recollection of a lifelong friendship that began in childhood, reminiscences that formed the basis of the Academy Award-winning film Julia.