{"product_id":"2026200017458-secondhand-an-unfinished-woman","title":"An Unfinished Woman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne 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.\n\nWinner 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?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49210270908635,"sku":"2026200017458-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/d0a372b3-9086-4cfa-bb82-29cba94f151c.png?v=1788268503","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200017458-secondhand-an-unfinished-woman","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}