Lillian and Dash
A Historical, Fiction book. As I've gotten older, my reading tastes have changed. I was, for much of my reading life, well...
This exciting novel about Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man) and Lillian Hellman (The Children’s Hour) reintroduces their larger-than-life personalities and the vicissitudes of their affair that spanned three decades.Toperoff reimagines the highs and lows of a fast-living, hard-drinking literary couple, and their individual passions, projects, and literary creations. Hammett and Hellman’s relationship evolves during major artistic and political epochs—Hollywood’s heyday, the New York literary scene, the Spanish Civil War, McCarthyism, and both world wars—and each movement is captured with subjectivity and credible insight. Populated with writers, drinkers, filmmakers, and revolutionaries, Lillian and Dash chronicles the unusual affair of two prominent and headstrong figures.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 400 pages
- ISBN: 9781590515686 / 0
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An engaging look at a fascinating couple. I wouldn't have wanted to be their neighbor, more likely their drinking buddy (which is saying a lot, as I don't drink). Alternately fascinating and repellent, these two are always interesting, and undeniably brilliant. The sparkling wit of their early years subsides all-too soon into Dash's... As I've gotten older, my reading tastes have changed. I was, for much of my reading life, well into my 30's, a full-on fiction reader. When my first child was born, my list expanded to include the occasional parenting book, and a wonderful selection of children's books. Later, in my 40's, I began to be attracted to non-fict This may resonate more with someone who's already a fan of Dashiell Hammett or Lillian Hellmann, but it doesn't work for me. It reads toooooo much like a biography - not in a good way, but in a stilted, excess backstory kind of way. It also bounces around from two different first-person perspective (Dash's and Lillian's) and a third-person...
