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Reviewed on February 15, 2018 | Women of the World
Journalist and critic Dean offers a look at the lives and careers of ten women she describes as sharp, including Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm. These women are bound by exceptional talent and helped forward American literature in the 20th century. Each chapter is part biography an...Log In or Sign Up to Read More