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Partisans: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals

by David Laskin

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ISBN13: 9780226468938
ISBN10: 0226468933
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Publisher Comments:

Combining literary biography with astute reporting and moral insight, David Laskin shows how sex, politics, and art affected relationships among the Partisan Review writers: Mary McCarthy, Edmund Wilson, Philip Rahv, Robert Lowell, Jean Stafford, Elizabeth Hardwick, Hannah Arendt, Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon, and Diana Trilling. It is the women who steal the show with their their groundbreaking work, their harrowing experiences of marriage, abuse, and betrayal, their passion for writing and disdain for feminism, their struggles and achievements.

Synopsis:

Combining literary biography with astute reporting and moral insight, David Laskin shows how sex, politics, and art affected relationships among the legendary group of New York intellectuals who were the Partisan Review writers. It is the women who steal the show with their groundbreaking work, their harrowing experiences of marriage, abuse, and betrayal, their passion for writing and disdain for feminism, and their struggles and achievements.

Description:

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Partisan Review Reborn

2. The Southern Branch

3. Seven Years of Hell

4. Country Wives

5. The War

6. Divorces

7. The Tranquilized Fifties: Insanity and Liberalism

8. The Early 1960s: Firestorms

9. The Late 1960s: Dispersal

Epilogue: Deaths

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Product Details

ISBN:
9780226468938
Subtitle:
Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals
Author:
Laskin, David
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Location:
Chicago
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
Women Authors
Subject:
American literature
Subject:
Women authors, American
Subject:
Authors, American
Subject:
Politics and literature
Subject:
New York
Subject:
Intellectuals
Subject:
Women intellectuals
Subject:
New York Review of Books
Subject:
Partisan review
Subject:
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Edition Description:
Univ of Chicago
Series Volume:
106-40
Publication Date:
April 2001
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
319
Dimensions:
9.25 x 6.13 in

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