Adina Hoffman: Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures (Jewish Lives) [2019] hardback Condition:New South Dublin's favourite son thought

South Dublin's favourite son thought he could face any challenge - until he was asked to cross the bridge over the River Dargle

Before long

four pairs of socks and not much else

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Adina Hoffman: Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures (Jewish Lives) [2019] hardback Condition:New South Dublin's favourite son thoughtFrom the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a vibrant portrait of Ben Hecht, one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters "Adina Hoffman's superb [book] . . . loads Hecht's staggering contradictions into a compact but abounding two hundred twenty pages. . . . She writes with enormous flair." David Denby, New Yorker "To boil down such a profuse, not to say verbose, career, into so compact a volume was a challenge, but [Hoffman] has