Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | ISBN:1596913630 | File Type: PDF, 448 pages | File size: 41.Mb | Apr. 24th, 2012
Women Biography Women Autobiography: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman Lillian Hellman was a giant of twentieth century letters and a groundbreaking figure as one of the most successf 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 fabist the woman of whom Mary McCarthy said Every word she writes is a lie including and and the In A Diffict Woman renowned historian Alice Kessler Harris undertakes a feat few wod dare to attempt a reclamation of a combative controversial woman who straddled so many political and ctural fat lines of her time Kessler Harris renders Hellman s feisty wit and personality in all of its contradictions as a non Jewish Jew a displaced Southerner a passionate political voice without a party an artist immersed in commerce a sexually free woman who scorned much of the women s movement a loyal friend whose trust was often betrayed and a writer of memoirs who repeatedly questioned the possibility of achieving truth and doubted her memory Hellman was a writer whose plays spoke the language of morality yet whose achievements foundered on accusations of mendacity Above all else she was a woman who made her way in a man s world Kessler Harris has crafted a nuanced life of Hellman empathetic yet unsparing that situates her in the varied contexts in which she moved from New Orleans to Broadway to the hearing room of HUAC A Difficut Woman is a major work of literary and intellectual history This will be one of the most reviewed and most acclaimed books of 2012
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