I'm Dying Laughing by Christina Stead
After the Great Depression, American journalist Emily Wilkes travels to a Europe scarred by World War I and meets Stephen Howard, a wealthy Communist who converts her to his ideals. They return to the United States, marry, and become darlings of the American left in Hollywood, where Emily writes for film and as a novelist while Stephen follows the Party line. When their radicalism falls out of favor they retreat to Paris and tragically unravel. It was published posthumously by literary executor Ron Geering.
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- Published
- 1986
- Nationality
- Australian
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 464
- Original Language
- English
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