Ex-Friends: Falling Out With Allen Ginsberg, Lionel & Diana Trilling, Hanah Arendt, Lillian Hellman, and Norman Mailer
- List Price: $25.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Free Press
- Publish date: 01/01/2004
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In Ex-Friends, Norman Podhoretz tells the highly dramatic story of five famous fights which cost him some notable friends. Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Hannah Arendt, Lillian Hellman, and Norman Mailer come alive in these pages, sometimes comically, sometimes affectionately, and sometimes scathingly. Podhoretz gives thanks for having known this stellar group, credits them for what they brought to his life and his education, and candidly explains why his friendship with each came to an end.
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One of the few people to have been so intimately involved with this "family" of writers and thinkers, Podhoretz sheds light on the nature of friendship -- particularly in relation to people for whom ideas about politics, the arts, and the society around them are virtually matters of life and death. Ex-Friends will make an elder generation of intellectuals nostalgic for a time when the brightest lights of the day gathered in New York living rooms for drinks and talk of the highest kind. It will make a younger generation yearn for a time when public debate had a more urgent and a more personalized forum -- as searing as that could sometimes be.
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