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Writers Gone Wild
Bill Peschel
其他書名
The Feuds, Frolics, and Follies of Literature's Great Adventurers, Drunkards, Lo vers, Iconoclasts, and Misanthropes
出版
Penguin
, 2010-11-02
主題
Literary Collections / Essays
Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
Humor / Form / Trivia
ISBN
1101445246
9781101445242
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=YqUbrdPl4QMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Truth is stranger than fiction.
If you've imagined famous writers to be desk-bound drudges, think again.
Writers Gone Wild
rips back the (book) covers and reveals the seamy underside of the writing life.
Insightful, intriguing, and irresistibly addictive,
Writers Gone Wild
reveals such fascinating stories as:
* The night Dashiell Hammett hired a Chinese prostitute to break up S. J. Perelman's marriage (and ran off with his wife).
* Why Sylvia Plath bit Ted Hughes on the cheek.
* Why Ernest Hemingway fought a book critic, a modernist poet, and his war correspondent/wife Martha Gellhorn (but not at the same time).
* The near-fatal trip Katherine Anne Porter took while high on marijuana in Mexico.
* Why women's breasts sent Percy Bysshe Shelley screaming from the room.
* The day Virginia Woolf snuck onto a Royal Navy ship disguised as an Abyssinian prince.
Pull up a chair, turn on good reading light, and discover what your favorite writers were up to while away from their desks. Sometimes, they make the wildest characters of all.