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Child of the Century

English · Paperback / Softback

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"Ben Hecht's critically acclaimed autobiographical memoir, first published in 1954, offers incomparably pungent evocations of Chicago in the 1910s and 1920s, Hollywood in the 1930s, and New York during the Second World War and after"--

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Ben Hecht (1893-1964) was an American screenwriter (Scarface, The Front Page, Notorious), reporter, playwright, journalist, and novelist. According to Pauline Kael, he was "the greatest American screenwriter." David Denby is the author of Great Books, American Sucker, Snark, and Do the Movies Have a Future? He has been a staff writer and film critic at The New Yorker since 1998.

Product details

Authors Ben Hecht, Hecht Ben
Assisted by Denby David (Introduction)
Publisher Yale University Press Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 29.02.2020
 
EAN 9780300251791
ISBN 978-0-300-25179-1
No. of pages 680
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries
Humanities, art, music > Art

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, Memoirs, Autobiography: arts & entertainment, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs

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