A child of the century /
Ben Hecht's critically acclaimed autobiographical memoir, first published in 1954, offers incomparably pungent evocations of Chicago in the 1910s and 1920s, Hollywood in the 1930s, and New York during the Second World War and after. "His manners are not always nice, but then nice manners d...
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| Формат: | Licensed eBooks |
| Язык: | английский |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press
[2020]
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| Online-ссылка: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvwcjfbn |
| Итог: | Ben Hecht's critically acclaimed autobiographical memoir, first published in 1954, offers incomparably pungent evocations of Chicago in the 1910s and 1920s, Hollywood in the 1930s, and New York during the Second World War and after. "His manners are not always nice, but then nice manners do not always make interesting autobiographies, and this autobiography has the merit of being intensely interesting."--Saul Bellow, New York Times Named to Time's list of All-Time 100 Nonfiction Books, which deems it "the un-put-downable testament of the era's great multimedia entertainer." |
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| Примечание: | Includes index. |
| Объем: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780300253689 0300253680 0300251793 9780300251791 |