Lillian and Dash

This exciting novel about Dashiell Hammett, author ofThe Maltese FalconandThe Thin Man, and Lillian Hellman, author ofThe Childrens Hour, reintroduces their larger-than-life personalities and the vicissitudes of their affair that spanned three decades. Toperoff reimagines the highs and lows of a fast-living, hard-drinking literary couple and their individual passions, projects, and literary creations. Hammett and Hellmans relationship evolves during major artistic and political epochsHollywoods heyday, the New York literary scene, the Spanish Civil War, McCarthyism, and both world warsand each movement is captured with subjectivity and credible insight. Populated with writers, drinkers, filmmakers, and revolutionaries,Lillian and Dashchronicles the unusual affair of two prominent and headstrong figures.