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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
LC control number |
2011028065 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9781596913639 (hardback) |
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
Transcribing agency |
DLC |
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DLC |
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Authentication code |
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050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
Classification number |
PS 3515 .E343 |
Item number |
Z74 2012 |
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
Classification number |
812/.52 |
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B |
Edition number |
22 |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Kessler-Harris, Alice. |
Relator term |
author |
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2810 |
245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
A difficult woman : |
Remainder of title |
the challenging life and times of Lillian Hellman / |
Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Alice Kessler-Harris. |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York : |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Bloomsbury Press, |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2012. |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
439 pages : |
Other physical details |
illustrations ; |
Dimensions |
25 cm. |
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [361]-429) and index. |
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
Formatted contents note |
1. Old-fashioned American traditions -- 2. A tough broad -- 3. A serious playwright -- 4. Politics without fear -- 5. An American Jew -- 6. The writer as moralist -- 7. A self-made woman -- 8. A known communist -- 9. The most dangerous hours -- 10. Liar, liar -- 11. Life after death. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc. |
"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 reclamation of a combative, controversial woman who straddled so many political and cultural fault 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 [House Un-American Activities Committee]." -- from Amazon. |
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Hellman, Lillian, |
Dates associated with a name |
1905-1984. |
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2811 |
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Hellman, Lillian, |
Dates associated with a name |
1905-1984 |
General subdivision |
Political and social views. |
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2812 |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Dramatists, American |
Chronological subdivision |
20th century |
Form subdivision |
Biography. |
9 (RLIN) |
2813 |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Playwriting |
9 (RLIN) |
4970 |
856 41 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="https://archive.org/details/difficultwomanch0000kess">https://archive.org/details/difficultwomanch0000kess</a> |
Public note |
Click here to access online |
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Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
Koha item type |
BOOKS |