Hardcover
2012 · New York
by Kessler-Harris, Alice
New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2012. Hardcover. VG (SIGNED BY AUTHOR on tp.). Cream boards, cream & gray and illus. dust jacket, 440 pp., BW illus. "She was a literary icon and a groundbreaking figure as the most successful female playwright in American history. She was also one of the few artists who stood up to the political witch hunts of the 1950s, with her crisp declaration 'I will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.' Yet Lillian Hellman is today often remembered as a toxic, unrepentant Stalinist and a literary fabulist -- the author about whom Mary McCarthy said, 'Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'' In A Difficult Woman, the historian Alice Kessler-Harris undertakes a feat few would dare: a reclamation of this combative, controversial woman who crossed so many political and cultural fault lines." (dj) SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page.
(Inventory #: 152868)