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020			_a9781596913639 (hardback)
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050	0	0	_aPS 3515 .E343 _bZ74 2012
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100	1		_aKessler-Harris, Alice. _eauthor _92810
245	1	2	_aA difficult woman : _bthe challenging life and times of Lillian Hellman / _cAlice Kessler-Harris.
260			_aNew York : _bBloomsbury Press, _c2012.
300			_a439 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [361]-429) and index.
505	0		_a1. 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			_a"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	1	0	_aHellman, Lillian, _d1905-1984. _92811
600	1	0	_aHellman, Lillian, _d1905-1984 _xPolitical and social views. _92812
650		0	_aDramatists, American _y20th century _vBiography. _92813
650		0	_aPlaywriting _94970
856	4	1	_uhttps://archive.org/details/difficultwomanch0000kess _zInternet_OpenLibrary
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