Partisans: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals - Brossura

Laskin, David

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ISBN 10: 0226468933 ISBN 13: 9780226468938

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2001

Riassunto

Combining literary biography with astute reporting and moral insight, David Laskin shows how sex, politics, and art affected relationships among the Partisan Review writers: Mary McCarthy, Edmund Wilson, Philip Rahv, Robert Lowell, Jean Stafford, Elizabeth Hardwick, Hannah Arendt, Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon, and Diana Trilling. It is the women who steal the show with their their groundbreaking work, their harrowing experiences of marriage, abuse, and betrayal, their passion for writing and disdain for feminism, their struggles and achievements.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

David Laskin is a cultural historian and the author of A Common Life: Four Generations of American Literary Friendship and Influence and Braving the Elements: The Stormy History of American Weather.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

Combining literary biography with astute reporting and moral insight, David Laskin shows how sex, politics, and art affected relationships among the legendary group of New York intellectuals who were the Partisan Review writers. It is the women who steal the show with their groundbreaking work, their harrowing experiences of marriage, abuse, and betrayal, their passion for writing and disdain for feminism, and their struggles and achievements.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0226468933
• ISBN 13: 9780226468938
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 328