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Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

By Caroline Moorehead

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| Paperback | 9780805083224

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“A literary landmark. Gellhorn’s prose . . . is at its finest in the letter form.”—Francine du Plessix Gray, The New York Times Book Review Martha Gellhorn’s reporting career brought her to the front lines of virtually every significant conflict from the SContinue

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Woman of Letters

One might well argue that there’s considerable advantage, for a gifted woman, in having a take-it-or-leave-it attitude to sex, in being ever ready to abandon the most desirable men to pursue her vocation. An imperviousness to lust is certainly what M ... (read full critics)

nytimes published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

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From one of the first and only women war correspondents of the planet and the former wife of Hemingway (although she would prefer to forget that particular episode), the most personal writings imaginable: her letters to her many friends.
As these friends include Eleanor Roosevelt, HG Wells, He ... (continue)

From one of the first and only women war correspondents of the planet and the former wife of Hemingway (although she would prefer to forget that particular episode), the most personal writings imaginable: her letters to her many friends.
As these friends include Eleanor Roosevelt, HG Wells, Hemingway, Leonard Bernstein, Adlai Stevenson and many more, and they span the years from the Great Depression through WW II, the cold war and the sexual revolution, this is a fascinating document of the life of a curious, smart, politically aware and curiously open and vulnerable individual.
Fascinating reading.

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