| The Novellas of Martha Gellhorn Contributor(s): Gellhorn, Martha (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679743693 ISBN-13: 9780679743699 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $23.75 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 1994 Annotation: A singular voice in American writing, Martha Gellhorn is known to several generations for her war reporting--from the Spanish civil war to Vietnam and Central America. But as this major retrospective amply demonstrates, for more than five decades she has also been a fiction writer of the first rank. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 93042194 |
| Physical Information: 1.53" H x 5.54" W x 8.52" (1.77 lbs) 636 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: " Blending] cool lyricism and fiery emotion, alternately prickly and welcoming, funny and stern, Gellhorn is one of the most extraordinary women of our era."--Chicago Sun-Times Spanning more than 40 years and settings that range from Depression-era America to the smartest London dinner parties to the highlands of East Africa, the novellas of Martha Gellhorn display the same qualities that have made her one of the most famous journalists of the twentieth century: an indelible sense of place, prose of breathtaking swiftness and precision, and an unerring fix on the hidden motives of her characters. Above all, Martha Gellhorn explores the ways men and women live privately--and often passionately--amid the rush of history. "Reading Martha Gellhorn for the first time is a staggering experience. She is not a travel writer or a journalist or a novelist: she is all of these, and one of the most eloquent witnesses of the twentieth century."--Bill Buford, Granta "Martha Gellhorn is one of our very best writers. To the swift and vibrant medium of the novella], she brings a richness of experience, a tenderness and depth of feeling."--The Atlantic "Peerless and hilarious . . . Martha Gellhorn is a wittily astringent writer."--Vogue |