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Title: A Likely Story: One Summer With Lillian Hellman by Rosemary Mahoney ISBN: 0-385-47931-X Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday Pub. Date: 09 November, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.17 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Much more than a memoir, a powerful coming of age story.
Comment: Rosemary Mahoney's, A Likely Story, about the harrowing summer the author spent working for playwright Lillian Hellman on Martha's Vineyard, is in a totally different league from the avalanche of earnest "memoirs" that clutter the new and noteworthy book tables at megastores these days. Mahoney doesn't serve up the usual soul baring on the way to self healing that ends up making you feel like you just sat in on someone's (appropriately sanitized) therapy sessions, but rather the heart-wrenching and hilarious truth about being seventeen.
Mahoney knows that to be any good, a story must entertain and entertain this one does, with a parade of meticulously observed and remembered scenes that has you licking your chops for more, but the true brilliance of A Likely Story lies in its voice. Mahoney doesn't philosophize about the events of that long past summer from the vantage point of a now much-the-wiser adult; she gives her reader more credit and more fun than that, flinging us into the middle of those events, literally wrapping us in the skin of her seventeen year old self.
Whether caught in a vertiginous exchange with the tyrannical Hellman, serving dinner to Hellman's laughably insecure celebrity guests, or slowly realizing the worthiness of her own mother on a rainy afternoon in Vineyard Haven, Mahoney never slips out of character. We see though her eyes, think with her mind and feel with her heart.
In the recreation of the teenager she once was, Rosemary Mahoney has given us a character that stands beside Salinger's Holden Caufield -- a lonely, wonderfully funny and sad adolescent, caught between innocence and experience by a true exercise of literary art.
Rating: 4
Summary: very good read
Comment: A Likely Story, is about a seventeen year old girl, who's hopes and dreams are to spend a summer of fun & friendship with Lillian Hellman, in hopes that greatness would rub off on her.
Rosemary was 17 when she wrote to Lillian Hellman, asking for a part-time summer job. To her surprise, Lillian hired her as a part-time live-in housekeeper, which became more than part-time. When Rosemary applied for the job, employment was the farthest thing from her mind. Rosemary was really only thinking of herself. What she really planned was to read, write, and becoming great friends with Lillian Hellman. But, Lillian had other ideas for Rosemary. And what Rosemary got was something else indeed.
This book is about the innocence's of a 17 year-old girl, her touch with reality and her painful coming of age. At times it's heart breaking to read, other times it is uproariously funny. Rosemary Mahoney makes you feel as if you are her, in her shoes, living her experiences, and feeling her emotions.
It's a good read for those times when you don't want to concentrate on a story line or try to solve a plot. Everything you need is right there for you. I hope you like it. I did.
Pam Stone back to the top
Rating: 3
Summary: Well-described about Mahoney herself
Comment: If you're interested in Mahoney herself, this must be good-read. You will understand some part of her own life and character. However, the relationship between Mahoney and Hellman was too little to describe well about LH.
If you like to know more about Lillian Hellman, I'd recommend you to read "Lilly: Reminiscences of Lillian Hellman" written by Peter Feibleman.
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Title: Whoredom in Kimmage: The Private Lives of Irish Women by Rosemary Mahoney ISBN: 0385474504 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Early Arrival of Dreams : A Year in China by Rosemary Mahoney ISBN: 0618035494 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 12 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground by Rosemary Mahoney ISBN: 0618022627 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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