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    <body><![CDATA[Remarkable memoir, stories told exquisitely.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I first beame interested in Lillian Hellman when I saw theatre productions of &quot;The Little Foxes&quot; &amp; &quot;The Children's Hour!&quot;  Then,I saw the controve3rsial Film: &quot;JULIA&quot; which moved me greatly.  I borrowed this book from a friend nad devoured it!  It is a series of short s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74342816">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another set of memoirs from Lillian Hellman. Probably another pack of lies and half-truths from what I have read and heard in the last few years. This is the book the story &quot;Julia&quot; came from. <br/><br/>Somewhere along the way I figured out that by comparing this and her previous book of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56363173">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book after taking Southern Lit in college and loving the movie &quot;Julia.&quot;  Since I remember nothing about this book now, I'm giving it a relatively low rating.  I'm starting to realize that if I read a book a while back and have no memories of it, it must not have been a good boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74884404">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Always wanted to read this book, since seeing the movie Julia 30 years ago.  It did not disappoint.  It was nice seeing a glimpse of Dash and Lillian's life together, plus the many eccentric characters from her family and circle of friends, especially from the literary and theater folk from the 40's...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63129888">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another of my favorite Southern writers. Miss Hellman, like Mr. Capote takes full license to blur the lines between fact and fiction. What's all the fuss? It's what writers do...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Very good book with historical value.  Remarkable woman who showed courage during a time when most men hid their tails and ran.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[La Antigua pintura al oleo, al corer del tiempo, pasa en ocasiones a ser transparente. Cuando esto sucede, es possible, en algunos cuadros ver los trazos originales: aparecerá un árbol a través del vestido de una mujer, un niño abre paso a un perro, un barco grande ya no se ve en un mar abierto. A esto se le llama PENTIMENTO, porgue el pintor se arrepintió, cambió de idea. Quizá también sería correcto decir que la primitive concepción, reemplazada por una preferencia posterior, es una manera de ver y luego ver una vez más.<br/>	Esto es cuanto quiero decir respecto a la gente que aparece en este libro. Ahora la pintura ha envejecido y he querido ver lo que fue para mi una vez, lo que es para mí ahora.<br/>					Lillian Hellman]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story &quot;Julia&quot; is the only gem in this book. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading it for class, it's aight, not amazing...crazy life this lady led...a good look at the art of nonfiction and how memory can skew truth (yes, that's the point of the class I'm taking, so yeah for the professor for picking a pertinent book!)  The irony is, in fact, though, that Hellman lies thr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32051371">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Had I seen any of her plays or read her first memoir I might have enjoyed this more.  That said, after reading this, I don't plan to go out of my way to do either of those things.  I found it disjointed, ephemeral (not in the good way), and containing a lack of detail about her life.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A memoir in vignettes.  This book contains the much debated &quot;Julia&quot; vignette, which was made into a movie with Jane Fonda.  It created something of a scandal when Muriel Gardiner accused Hellman of stealing wholesale from her own memoirs &quot;Code Name Mary.&quot;]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Rich, interesting, and oddly disjointed. If I didn't know who Lillian Hellman was in a general sense, this book would have been weird and meaningless, but since I've read &quot;The Children's Hour&quot;, Pentimento was much more interesting to me.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was fantastic. Ms. Hellman had an awesome way of writing about the people she knew. She lived an extraordinary life and knew extraordinary people and I just wish she had written even more about all of it. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[ Writes (beautifully of a time long gone, the 1920'-1930's.If you like the book see the movie &quot;Julia&quot; also wonderful. Just learning what &quot;pentimento&quot; means makes it worth a read.(Look it up )]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another writer recommended by Aunt Claire. Excellent writer, had a bizzare life as did her love Dashiell Hammett who was famous for &quot;The Thin Man&quot; series among other good mysteries.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book ties into the movie Julia but the book is so much more than that.  Hellman is simply amazing in my opinion.  Fascinating story this!]]></body>
    
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