Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
Adina Hoffman, "Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures "
English | ISBN: 030018042X | 2019 | 264 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 030018042X | 2019 | 264 pages | PDF | 2 MB
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a vibrant portrait of Ben Hecht, one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters
“Adina Hoffman's superb [book] . . . loads Hecht's staggering contradictions into a compact but abounding two hundred twenty pages. . . . She writes with enormous flair.”—David Denby, New Yorker
“To boil down such a profuse, not to say verbose, career, into so compact a volume was a challenge, but [Hoffman] has achieved much more than elegant concision. . . . She makes contact with a living personality, creating a portrait both sympathetic and clear-eyed.”—Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Review of Books
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