{"product_id":"imaginary-friends","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","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47293815292125,"sku":"9781400034222","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3765\/8589\/files\/imageloader_1a83d473-e555-498e-bb6a-51bbb6cdfd03.jpg?v=1769119844","url":"https:\/\/bookshelfbliss.com\/products\/imaginary-friends","provider":"Bookshelf Bliss","version":"1.0","type":"link"}