South Mountain Road: A Daughter's Journey of Discovery - Hardcover

Anderson, Hesper

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684859017 ISBN 13: 9780684859019

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia, 2000

Synopsis

The daughter of playwright Maxwell Anderson relates the events of her childhood in a rural community outside of New York City, discussing her relationship with her father and the devastation of her mother's suicide.

About this title

Review:

Susan Cheever In this haunting and powerful story, Hesper Anderson brings to life the astonishing artistic community that formed around her father, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Maxwell Anderson, on South Mountain Road in the shadow of High Tor. Her personal journey -- her adoration of her difficult father, her love affair with a family friend, and her grief at her mother's suicide -- is played out against the background of her family's celebrated friends and neighbors, including Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya, Henry Varnum Poor, Alan Jay Lerner, and Bill Mauldin. This book is about balancing art and life; it's about love and fantasy within a family; and it's a sad book with a happy ending.

About the Author:

Hesper Anderson is the author or coauthor of several screenplays and television plays, including the Academy Award-nominated Children of a Lesser God. This is her first book. She lives in Napa, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0684859017
• ISBN 13: 9780684859019
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 286