Imaginary Friends
Author(s): Nora Ephron
Although Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy probably only met once in their lives, their names will be linked forever in the history of American literary feuds: they were legendary enemies, especially after McCarthy famously announced to the world that every word Hellman wrote was a lie, "including 'and' and 'the.'" The public battle, and the legal squabbling, that ensued ended, unsatisfactorily for all, with Hellman's death.
In Imaginary Friends," " Nora Ephron brilliantly and hilariously resuscitates these two bigger-than-life women to give them a post-mortem second act, and the chance to really air their differences.
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"A sharp-eyed and even sharper-clawed memory-play. . . . Provides . . . guilty pleasures, keeping the repartee both snappy and snappish." --"The Wall Street Journal
""A feast of wit and language . . . that grows into a hair-pulling duel even Don King could appreciate." "--Los Angeles Times
""Takes the prize for audacity. . . . Two august ladies of letters as you've never seen them before. . . . [I]n American theater, everybody loves a bitch with style." --"The New York Times
""A witty, swanky, thoroughly delightful intellectual vaudeville that's as light as it is sneakily substantial." --"Newsday
""Nora Ephron knows how to refine the passions of Hellman and McCarthy into glittering comedy. . . . [She] also gives her dueling heroines some swipes worthy of Clare Boothe Luce's long-form catfight, The Women,"" --The New York Sun
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General Fields
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- : Random House USA Inc
- : Random House Inc
- : 0.154
- : 204mm X 132mm X 9mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Nora Ephron
- : Paperback / softback
- : 812.54
- : 144
