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Here but Not Here: A Love Story
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Lillian Ross
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Random House Inc
Publication date
June 1, 1998
Pages
240
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780375501197
ISBN-10
0375501193
Dimensions
1 by 6.25 by 10 in.
Weight
1.05 lbs.
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Original list price
$25.00
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
A noted writer for The New Yorker describes her forty-year passionate relationship with William Shawn, the magazine's famed editor, detailing their unconventional liaison, its implications, and her career at the magazine and in Hollywood. 40,000 first printing.
(view table of contents)Amazon.com description: Product Description: In this fascinating and beautiful memoir, the renowned New Yorker writer Lillian Ross tells a remarkable love story of the passionate life she shared for forty years with William Shawn, The New Yorker's famous editor.
"All enduring love between two people, however startling or unconventional, feels unalterable, predestined, compelling, and intrinsically normal to the couple immersed in it, so I would have to say that I had an intrinsically normal life for over four decades with William Shawn. . . . I have a lasting sense of the normalcy of it all. It was a normalcy that Bill Shawn was able to create for himself and for me against all normal odds."
Shawn was married, yet Ross and Shawn created a home together a dozen blocks south of the Shawns' apartment, raised a child, and lived with discretion. Their lives intertwined from the 1950s until Shawn's death, in 1992. Ross describes how they met and the intense connection between them; how Shawn worked with some of the best writers of the period; how, to escape their developing liaison, Ross moved to Hollywood, and there wrote the famous pieces that became Picture, the classic story of the making of a movie--John Huston's The Red Badge of Courage--only to return to New York and to the relationship. The love of Shawn and Ross for each other made it impossible for them ever to part.
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This book is a gem, an exquisitely told real-life story more potent than fiction.
"All enduring love between two people, however startling or unconventional, feels unalterable, predestined, compelling, and intrinsically normal to the couple immersed in it, so I would have to say that I had an intrinsically normal life for over four decades with William Shawn. . . . I have a lasting sense of the normalcy of it all. It was a normalcy that Bill Shawn was able to create for himself and for me against all normal odds."
Shawn was married, yet Ross and Shawn created a home together a dozen blocks south of the Shawns' apartment, raised a child, and lived with discretion. Their lives intertwined from the 1950s until Shawn's death, in 1992. Ross describes how they met and the intense connection between them; how Shawn worked with some of the best writers of the period; how, to escape their developing liaison, Ross moved to Hollywood, and there wrote the famous pieces that became Picture, the classic story of the making of a movie--John Huston's The Red Badge of Courage--only to return to New York and to the relationship. The love of Shawn and Ross for each other made it impossible for them ever to part.
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This book is a gem, an exquisitely told real-life story more potent than fiction.
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Hardcover
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from Random House Inc (June 1, 1998)
9780375501197 | details & prices | 240 pages | 6.25 × 10.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $25.00
About: A noted writer for 'The New Yorker' describes her forty-year passionate relationship with William Shawn, the magazine's famed editor, detailing their unconventional liaison, its implications, and her career at the magazine and in Hollywood
About: A noted writer for 'The New Yorker' describes her forty-year passionate relationship with William Shawn, the magazine's famed editor, detailing their unconventional liaison, its implications, and her career at the magazine and in Hollywood
Paperback
Reprint edition from Counterpoint (March 12, 2001)
9781582431109 | details & prices | 240 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $15.95
About: A noted writer for The New Yorker describes her forty-year passionate relationship with William Shawn, the magazine's famed editor, detailing their unconventional liaison, its implications, and her career at the magazine and in Hollywood.
About: A noted writer for The New Yorker describes her forty-year passionate relationship with William Shawn, the magazine's famed editor, detailing their unconventional liaison, its implications, and her career at the magazine and in Hollywood.
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