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Synopsis
Heartbreaking and riotously funny by turns, a memoir recounts the summer the author spent as a lonely seventeen-year-old would-be writer with the famous, septuagenarian writer Lillian Hellman, an experience that became an exercise in humiliation and disillusion. Tour.
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Review
"An endlessly fascinating book...."
--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
--Los Angeles Times Book Review "Rosemary Mahoney...brings to her memoir the shaping and insight and sheer good writing we expect from a work of fiction."
--The New York Observer "This brave and heartwrenching book is the final evidence that, as far as writers go, Mahoney is the real thing."
--Newsday
About the Author
Rosemary Mahoney is the author of The Early Arrival of Dreams, a New York Times Notable Book in 1990, and Whoredom in Kimmage, an National Book Critics' Circle finalist in 1993. She won the Charles E. Horman Prize for Fiction Writing as an undergraduate at Harvard and is also the recipient of a Whiting Writing Award. She lives in New York City.
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- PublisherBantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0385477937
- ISBN 13 9780385477932
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages273
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