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ISBN: PB: 9780300251791

Yale University Press

April 2020

680 pp.

21.6x13.9 cm

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£16,00
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Child of the Century

Ben Hecht's critically acclaimed autobiographical memoir, first published in 1954, offers incomparably pungent evocations of Chicago in the 1910s and 1920s, Hollywood in the 1930s, and New York during the Second World War and after.

About the Author

Ben Hecht (1893-1964) was an American screenwriter (Scarface,The Front Page, Notorious), reporter, playwright, journalist, and novelist. According to Pauline Kael, he was "the greatest American screenwriter".

David Denby is the author of "Great Books", "American Sucker", "Snark", and "Do the Movies Have a Future?". He has been a staff writer and film critic at The New Yorker since 1998.