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...Your Own Best Friend, Newman & Berkowitz (2) 3-The Onion Field, Wambough (5) 4-The Making of the President 1972, White (3) 5-Pentimento, HeLLman 6-Sybil, Schreiber (4) 7-Buried Alive, Friedman (6) 8-Economics and the Public Purpose, GaLbraifh 9-Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution, Atkins(7) 10-Survive the Savage Sea, Robertson...
...credit, Hellman is neither a name dropper nor a restaurant and resort recorder. Those standbys of nostalgia, Gerald and Sara Murphy, crossed her path, but she merely remarks that they were perhaps "not as bonny or without troubles with each other" as they are usually depicted. Edmund Wilson appears, not as a mighty mind but as a comfortable pal who said sane things. Dorothy Parker was a close if infuriating friend. In 1937 she and Lillian traveled to Paris together. Parker was invited by the rich and famous to "tennis she didn't play and pools she didn...
...author's self-portrait is shadowy. She likes her tough side, noting that a friend once said, "I've always liked your anger, trusted it." From girlhood, Hellman went for the impulsive gesture, skipping school to trail shady relatives around New Orleans, insulting proper ones. The writing often recalls Gertrude Stein's stonier prose - obdurate, flat and mannered. Hellman is a virtuoso of ellipsis, a quality that doubtless served her well as a dramatist. In Pentimento she seems to take pride in leaving out connectives, or capping a half-told tale with a brief coda, unrelated except...