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Writers Gone Wild: The Feuds, Frolics, and Follies of Literature's Great Adventurers, Drunkards, Lovers, Iconoclasts, and Misanthropes
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Author
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Bill Peschel.
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Publisher
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Perigee
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Format
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paperback
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Product Dimensions
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8.25
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5.5
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0.75
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ISBN
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9780399536182
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Pages/Publication Date
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257/2010
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Daedalus Item Code
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20643
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Description
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If you've imagined famous writers to be desk-bound drudges, Bill Peschel invites you to think again. Here he explores the seamy underside of the writing life, recounting the night Dashiell Hammett hired a Chinese prostitute to break up S.J. Perelman's marriage; why Sylvia Plath bit Ted Hughes on the cheek; and why Ernest Hemingway fought a book critic, a modernist poet, and his war correspondent wife Martha Gellhorn (if not at the same time). Here too are the near-fatal trip Katherine Anne Porter took while high on marijuana in Mexico; why women's breasts sent Percy Bysshe Shelley screaming from the room; and the day Virginia Woolf snuck onto a Royal Navy ship disguised as an Abyssinian prince.
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