Timebends

Autobiographie de ce dramaturge Juif libéral new-yorkais, combattant pour la liberté (il est président du PEN international) et ex-mari de Marilyn Monroe. Pour Anthony Burgess ce livre propose "une allégorie des épreuves et des triomphes limités de l'intellectualité américaine."

First sentence: The view from the floor is of a pair of pointy black calf-height shoes, one of them twitching restlessly, and just above them the plum-colored skirt rising from the ankles to the blouse, and higher still the young round face and her ever-changing tones of voice as she gossips into the wall telephone with one of her two sisters, something she would go on doing the rest of her life until one by one

Year

1987

Language

English

Publisher

Grove Pr

Editions

15

Pages

614

ISBN

9780802100153

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