This exciting novel about Dashiell Hammett author of The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man and Lillian Hellman author of The Children?s Hour reintroduces their larger-than-life personalities and the vicissitudes of their affair that spanned three decades.
Toperoff reimagines the highs and lows of a fast-living hard-drinking literary couple and their individual passions projects and literary creations. Hammett and Hellman?s relationship evolves during major artistic and political epochs?Hollywood?s heyday the New York literary scene the Spanish Civil War McCarthyism and both world wars?and each movement is captured with subjectivity and credible insight.
Populated with writers drinkers filmmakers and revolutionaries Lillian and Dash chronicles the unusual affair of two prominent and headstrong figures.
