Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
David Laskin is a cultural historian and the author of A Common Life: Four Generations of American Literary Friendship and Influence and Braving the Elements: The Stormy History of American Weather.
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