Lillian and Dash

Name: Lillian and Dash
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Sam Toperoff
ISBN: 9781470898182

Author: Sam Toperoff

Narrator: Mark Bramhall, Lorna Raver, and Bernadette Dunne

Unabridged: 11 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 07/16/2013

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

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.

About Sam Toperoff

Sam Toperoff has
authored a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction, including Jimmy Dean
Prepares and Queen of Desire, and his stories and articles have
appeared in Atlantic, Harperâ€™s, Granta, New
York Times Magazine, Town & Country, and Sports
Illustrated. He lives in France in a house he built.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ed

As a rule, I steer away from reading novels taking prominent historical figures (Hemingway, Churchill, Lincoln) as their protagonists. It seems like a cheap way to develop the main character since we already know a lot about them. This novel re-imagining the lives and relationship of Lillian Hellman......more

Goodreads review by JoAnne

LILLIAN AND DASH Sam Toperoff My friend Bernadette recommended this book and I’m ever so grateful. The recommendation coupled with my lifelong fascination and respect for these two literary giants was an incredible experience. I loved the book! Mr. Toperoff’s expert writing brings this exciting over th......more

Goodreads review by Christina

I had problems with this reimagining of the great love affair of playwright Lillian Hellman and Thin Man author Dashiell Hammett. First of all, I always have issues with so-called fictional representations of historical figures mainly because the novels or screenplays often play fast and loose with......more