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A Child of the Century

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Whitledge Books
(Austin, TX, Estados Unidos de America)

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Descripción Soft cover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A CHILD OF THE CENTURY by Ben Hecht, softcover, first printing thus (December 1970), by arrangement with Simon & Schuster, photographs. BOOK CONDITION: Fair. The text block is in near fine condition with no tears, marks, or dog ears. Pages age-browned. There is no bookplate nor signature of previous owner. Faint pencil marks at top of first free endpaper. Not a library book nor a remainder. The wraps are in fair/poor condition (intact but with edge chipping, scuffing, discoloring on back). Spine is faded and has remains of a label at bottom. There are no reading creases on the spine. 7 x 4, 608 pages, 11 ounces XX [From Time magazine review]: Ben Hecht?s daughter Teddy once introduced her dad as ?the author of my being and other dubious works.? These works included the plays The Front Page and Twentieth Century, the films Scarface, Nothing Sacred, Spellbound and Notorious, plus a nonstop seven-day rewrite of the first half of Gone with the Wind for producer David O. Selznick. His movies and plays only hint at the scope of his rich, raffish career: he was cub reporter, columnist, foreign correspondent, poet, novelist, talk-show host on infant TV and so relentless a proponent for Zionism that his name was taken off films when they played in Britain. A Child of the Century packs all nine lives into 600 pages of glamorous prose snapshots of the famous (Mencken and the Marx brothers) and infamous (the Capote and Hitler mobs). It?s the un-put-downable testament of the era?s great multimedia entertainer. Nº de ref. del artículo: 000660

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