Pentimento Author:Lillian Hellman Lillian Hellman has lived the kind of life that reads like a novel...Hollywood in the days of Sam Goldwyn...New York in the glittering times of Dorothy Parker and Talulah Bankhead...a 30--year love affair with Dashiell Hammett, and a distinguished career as a playwright. In this beautifully wrought reminiscence, she moves back and forth from he... more »r childhood to the present to give us what is surely a moving, unforgettable masterpeice. Rarely do we get the chance to look so deeply into another's life.« less
Memoir that takes another look at several phases of her life from puberty through the death of Hammett. Well written, no holds barred. This, I believe, should be considered a classic in the genre of memoirs.