Lillian and Dash
Subtitle: a novel
By: Sam Toperoff
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9781590515686; 9781590515693
Subjects: Blacklisting of authors; Motion picture industry; Blacklisting of entertainers; American Dramatists; American Authors; Fiction
Description: Toperoff reimagines the highs and lows of a fast-living, hard-drinking literary couple, and their individual passions, projects, and literary creations. Hammett and Hellman's relationship evolves during major artistic and political epochs--Hollywood's heyday, the New York literary scene, the Spanish Civil War, McCarthyism, and both world wars--and each movement is captured with subjectivity and credible insight. Populated with writers, drinkers, filmmakers, and revolutionaries, Lillian and Dash chronicles the unusual affair of two prominent and headstrong figures.