| #510939 in eBooks | 2009-11-20 | 2009-11-25 | File type: PDF||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Imagining Mary McCarthy and Lillian Hellman as play mates.|By Priscilla Nemeth|What a clever and refreshing way to revisit two iconic writers: Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy. This sharp and digestible play imagines the two women having an extended interchange and even finding a sliver of common ground. Some of the devices that Ephron uses in the play would make for great sta||“A sharp-eyed and even sharper-clawed memory-play. . . . Provides . . . guilty pleasures, keeping the repartee both snappy and snappish.” --The Wall Street Journal||“A feast of wit and language . . . that grows into a hair-pulling duel
Although Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy probably only met once in their lives, their names will be linked forever in the history of American literary feuds: they were legendary enemies, especially after McCarthy famously announced to the world that every word Hellman wrote was a lie, “including ‘and’ and ‘the.’” The public battle, and the legal squabbling, that ensued ended, unsatisfactorily for all, with Hellman’s death.
You easily download any file type for your device.Imaginary Friends | Nora Ephron. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
