Lillian & Dash

by Sam Toperoff    (Find this book)
This exciting novel about Dashiell Hammett ("The Maltese Falcon" and "The Thin Man") and Lillian Hellman ("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. -- Publisher Marketing