Conversations with Lillian Hellman Literary Conversations Series

Jackson R. Bryer

ISBN 10: 0878052941 / ISBN 13: 9780878052943

Edité par University Press of Mississippi, 1986, 1986

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A clean well preserved 1986 University Press of Mississippi softcover in a fine tight binding. Faint tanning along the inside front and back cover but does not affect the text block. Text is bright and free of marks or underling. A great reading or research copy. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. This volume includes twenty-six conversations with Lillian Hellman, ranging from early newspaper interviews on the occasions of the Broadway openings of her plays through extended talks with her which appears in the Paris Review, Esquire, and Rolling Stone, down to her last interviews in the early 1980s.In all these interviews, Miss Hellman gives her own account of her eventful and exciting life, her evaluations and analyses of her plays and accounts of how and why they came to be written. Throughout, her views are expressed with the pungency, directness, honesty, and wit which made Lillian Hellman such a universally admired and respected figure.Hellman was seldom far from where the action was. The controversies in which she was involved are equaled only by the honors she received. This volume supplements her own memories by providing her own account of her life as she lived it--rather than from the vantage of the late 1960s and 1970s when she composed the mem.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Conversations with Lillian Hellman Literary Conversations Series
• Éditeur: University Press of Mississippi, 1986
• Date de parution: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0878052941
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780878052943
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Literature : Literary Criticism
  • Women's Studies

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Synopsis

This volume includes twenty-six conversations with Lillian Hellman, ranging from early newspaper interviews on the occasions of the Broadway openings of her plays through extended talks with her which appears in the Paris Review, Esquire, and Rolling Stone, down to her last interviews in the early 1980s.

In all these interviews, Miss Hellman gives her own account of her eventful and exciting life, her evaluations and analyses of her plays and accounts of how and why they came to be written. Throughout, her views are expressed with the pungency, directness, honesty, and wit which made Lillian Hellman such a universally admired and respected figure.

Hellman was seldom far from where the action was. The controversies in which she was involved are equaled only by the honors she received. This volume supplements her own memories by providing her own account of her life as she lived it--rather than from the vantage of the late 1960s and 1970s when she composed the mem

À propos de l'auteur

Jackson R. Bryer is professor emeritus of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is editor of Conversations with Lillian Hellman and Conversations with Thornton Wilder and coeditor of Conversations with Sam Shepard, Conversations with August Wilson, and Conversations with Neil Simon, in the University Press of Mississippi's Literary Conversations Series.