Lilly: Reminiscences of Lillian Hellman [Paperback]

Peter S. Feibelman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1990

This biography of Lillian Hellman is based on her published and unpublished works, letters, journals and conversations with the author. It recounts numerous friendships including her love affair with Dashiell Hammett and the author and reveals her complexity, egotism, loyalty, courage and vulnerability. The author also wrote "A Place Without Twilight", "The Daughters of Necessity", "Strangers and Graves" and "Charlie Boy and the Columbus Tree". Together with Lillian Hellman he wrote "Eating Together".

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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From Publishers Weekly

A New Orleans novelist ( Charlie Boy , etc.), who is Lillian Hellman's literary executor, recalls his 43-year friendship with the playwright, from the time he was 10 to the day in 1984 when, at age 79 and hospitalized, she died while her neck was being massaged by a nurse. Feibleman lovingly depicts their early relationship, sharing her Martha's Vineyard house, their becoming writing companions and lovers (despite the 26-year age difference), Hellman's constant anger, impatience and sharp tongue. He records her insistence on honesty while, at the same time, he acknowledges thatok? "she was not dependent on fact: a simple thing like lack of evidence was never a deterrent to a mind as open to speculation as Lilly's." Elizabeth Taylor, among others quoted here, came to realize that "beneath all Lillian's anger and willfulness was a great clumsy glob of innocence you couldn't help but trust." Thus even those who have gleefully boarded the anti-Hellman bandwagon may be moved by Feibleman's sensitive, perceptive recollections of a proud, vulnerable woman whom he regarded as a great lady and an admirable human being. Photos not seen by PW. First serial to Interview magazine; BOMC alternate.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Avon Books (P) (May 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380708930
• ISBN-13: 978-0380708932
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,097,023 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is both an act of love and an act of integrity, March 30, 1999

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Reading Lilly: Reminiscences of Lillian Hellman not only illuminates the life of Miss Hellman, it brings a fuller understanding of one's own life to the reader. I recognized certain bits of the author's rare insight into his friend and into himself as authentic feelings of my own--that I was unaware anyone else had ever experienced. Mr. Feibleman has done a great service to Miss Hellman; he has loved her enough to remember her without apology or explanation. It is a masterful work.

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