Surviving the Sixties
Hilary Mantel, 18 May 1989
Shoe: The Odyssey of a Sixties Survivor
by Jonathan Guinness.
Century Hutchinson, 233 pp., £14.95, March 1989,0 09 173857 1 Show More
by Jonathan Guinness.
Century Hutchinson, 233 pp., £14.95, March 1989,
Lilly: Reminiscences of Lillian Hellman
by Peter Feibleman.
Chatto, 364 pp., £14.95, February 1989,0 7011 3441 0 Show More
by Peter Feibleman.
Chatto, 364 pp., £14.95, February 1989,
“... the biographer, who is too preoccupied to notice the defection, writing busily about himself. Peter Feibleman followed his mistress Lillian Hellman, notebook in hand, to her dying breath – although, he tells us, ‘I didn’t need notes to remember my conversations with Lillian, I would have needed shock treatment to forget them.’ They were both ... ”
