Terror on the Vineyard
Terry Castle: Boss Ladies, Watch Out!, 15 April 1999
A Likely Story: One Summer with Lillian Hellman
by Rosemary Mahoney.
Doubleday, 273 pp., $23.95, November 1998,9780385479318 Show More
by Rosemary Mahoney.
Doubleday, 273 pp., $23.95, November 1998,
“... of that kind. Despite maudlin attention to her adolescent vulnerability – she is endlessly keen to tell us how gauche she was as a young woman, how lacking in confidence, how unprotected, weak and shy – Mahoney seems unable, after twenty years, to relate the enmity towards Hellman to what was patently a profound sense of being unmothered, un ours mal ... ”