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"From the Depression era of the 1930s through the Vietnam War of the 1960s, a generation of "public intellectuals" thrived in America. They were poets, novelists, critics, and commentators who were also friends, rivals, spouses, and lovers. Their personal relationships were as passionate as their writing. In their poems, novels, and essays they debated one another while producing work that was brilliant and often controversial. Among them are such influential writers as Mary McCarthy, Edmund Wilson, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Hannah Arendt."--BOOK JACKET. "While the pages of Partisan Review were a forum for political and intellectual controversy, its offices were a hotbed of gossip, intrigue, back-stabbing, and sex. Possessed of enormous ambition, talent, and appetite, the PR circle was an intense, self-enclosed society where creative energy often gave way to self-destructive impulses, alcoholism, and adultery. For women of talent, beauty, and ambition, this literary circle offered unprecedented professional opportunity but also exacted a terrible emotional price."--BOOK JACKET. "Amidst all the turmoil - or perhaps because of it - this brilliant circle continued to prod

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Author

Laskin, David, 1953-

Publisher

Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226468938

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.44 / 5 (20 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13