{"product_id":"imaginary-friends-9781400034222","title":"Imaginary Friends","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe bestselling author of\u003ci\u003e I Feel Bad About My Neck\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly and hilariously resuscitates Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy--two bigger-than-life feuding writers--to give them a post-mortem second act, and the chance to really air their differences.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlthough Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy probably only met once in their lives, their names will be linked forever in the history of American literary feuds: they were legendary enemies, especially after McCarthy famously announced to the world that every word Hellman wrote was a lie, \"including 'and' and 'the.'\" The public battle, and the legal squabbling, that ensued ended, unsatisfactorily for all, with Hellman's death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A sharp-eyed and even sharper-clawed memory-play.... Provides...guilty pleasures, keeping the repartee both snappy and snappish.\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNora Ephron was the author of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eI Feel Bad About My Neck\u003c\/i\u003e as well as \u003ci\u003eHeartburn\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCrazy Salad, Wallflower at the Orgy, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eScribble Scribble\u003c\/i\u003e. She wrote and directed the hit movie \u003ci\u003eJulie \u0026amp; Julia \u003c\/i\u003eand received Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay for \u003ci\u003eWhen Harry Met Sally. . ., Silkwood\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSleepless in Seattle\u003c\/i\u003e, which she also directed. Her other credits include the script for the stage hit \u003ci\u003eLove, Loss, and What I Wore\u003c\/i\u003e with Delia Ephron. She died in 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50414964572434,"sku":"9781400034222","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2da1b564-a9a0-4bb3-aa96-2110b73d2a7a.jpg?v=1729391895","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/imaginary-friends-9781400034222","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}