Pentimento - A Book Of Portraits

Hollywood in the days of Sam Goldwyn . . . New York in the glittering times of Dorothy Parker and Tallulah Bankhead ... a 30-year love affair with Dashiel Hammett, and a distinguished career as a playwright. "Exquisite . . . brilliantly finished ... it will be a long time before we have another book of personal remembrance as engaging as this one.—New York Times Book Review