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Pentimento

Lillian Hellman

Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 4.11 | 1659 Users | 92 Reviews

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Title	:	Pentimento
Author	:	Lillian Hellman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	March 29th 2000 by Back Bay Books (first published 1973)
Categories	:	Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Biography. Biography Memoir

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In this widely praised follow-up to her National Book Award-winning first volume of memoirs, An Unfinished Woman, the legendary playwright Lillian Hellman looks back at some of the people who, wittingly or unwittingly, exerted profound influence on her development as a woman and a writer. The portraits include Hellman's recollection of a lifelong friendship that began in childhood, reminiscences that formed the basis of the Academy Award-winning film Julia.

Details Books During Pentimento

Original Title:	Pentimento
ISBN:	0316352888 (ISBN13: 9780316352888)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	National Book Award Finalist for Arts and Letters (1974)

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Ratings: 4.11 From 1659 Users | 92 Reviews

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Remarkable memoir, stories told exquisitely.

Very good book with historical value. Remarkable woman who showed courage during a time when most men hid their tails and ran.

Julia, screenplay by Alvin Sargent, based upon the story by Lillian HellmanJulia is a very good motion picture, winner of three Academy Awards Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Jason Robards, Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Vanessa Redgrave and Best Writing for Alvin Sargent the Golden Globes for Vanessa Redgrave and Jane Fonda, the latter in the category Best Actress in a Leading Role.There have been other major wins- BAFTA for Best Picture especially and nominations for Oscars and

I loved this. The title itself is so brilliant - "pentimento" being when you are able to see the ghost traces of previous work in a painting, showing that the artist has changed his/her mind and painted over a previous idea. The word is Italian for "repentance," and in this book, Lillian is looking back and trying to find the old traces of memories of her past and the people she interacted with. There is a kind of repentance present, as well as a deep care for showing all sides of these

Maybe 5 stars is a little over the top, but I'm on a Lillian Hellman bender at the moment. I did really love this book. I love the style of her writing and the way she speaks. You feel like you're sitting in a room with her having a drink and listening to her. Turtle made me laugh out loud. I'm not in any way shape or form into harming turtles you understand, it's the conversations between her and Hammett. "the turtle's gone"! "you drink too much in the morning". I loved the one about Arthur

Excellent -- the only reason I give it four stars is because some stories (per usual) are better than others. However, like Faulkner's "Go Down Moses", there is a makeshift chronology in the ordering of the stories, although the stories themselves can go back and forth at will. I am accustomed to this, however by many of my favorite authors anyway, such as Toni Morrison and Faulkner. A few years ago, around age 37, I read Proust. I was, at that time, finally equipped to grasp the act of deeply

"Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter "repented," changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice is a way of seeing and then seeing again."This book consists of several long