An Unfinished Woman
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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One of the most formidable voices of twentieth-century American letters, Lillian Hellman bares her extraordinary life in An Unfinished Woman, a memoir that reads with the candour of a confession and the sharp precision of a playwright's eye. From her Depression-era childhood in New Orleans and New York to her harrowing firsthand witness of the Spanish Civil War and World War II, Hellman chronicles a life lived at the very epicentre of history, art, and moral conflict. The book teems with legendary figures — Dorothy Parker, Ernest Hemingway, Sergei Eisenstein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and her great love Dashiell Hammett — painting intimate, unvarnished portraits of a generation that shaped modern culture. Winner of the National Book Award in 1970, An Unfinished Woman stands as a landmark of American autobiography, celebrated for its unflinching honesty and Hellman's distinctively terse, muscular prose. She presents herself not as a heroine but as a witness — flawed, fierce, and perpetually restless — and it is this radical self-awareness that elevates the memoir far beyond mere celebrity reminiscence. For anyone drawn to the turbulent intellectual and political life of the mid-twentieth century, Hellman's account raises a question that lingers long after the final page: what does it truly mean to live by one's own conscience?
Author: Lillian Hellman
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
One of the most formidable voices of twentieth-century American letters, Lillian Hellman bares her extraordinary life in An Unfinished Woman, a memoir that reads with the candour of a confession and the sharp precision of a playwright's eye. From her Depression-era childhood in New Orleans and New York to her harrowing firsthand witness of the Spanish Civil War and World War II, Hellman chronicles a life lived at the very epicentre of history, art, and moral conflict. The book teems with legendary figures — Dorothy Parker, Ernest Hemingway, Sergei Eisenstein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and her great love Dashiell Hammett — painting intimate, unvarnished portraits of a generation that shaped modern culture. Winner of the National Book Award in 1970, An Unfinished Woman stands as a landmark of American autobiography, celebrated for its unflinching honesty and Hellman's distinctively terse, muscular prose. She presents herself not as a heroine but as a witness — flawed, fierce, and perpetually restless — and it is this radical self-awareness that elevates the memoir far beyond mere celebrity reminiscence. For anyone drawn to the turbulent intellectual and political life of the mid-twentieth century, Hellman's account raises a question that lingers long after the final page: what does it truly mean to live by one's own conscience?