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Love Goes to Press: A Comedy in Three Acts, Second Edition
Martha Gellhorn
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Description for Love Goes to Press: A Comedy in Three Acts, Second Edition
Paperback. Portrays the Battle of the Sexes. This title, set in a press camp on the Italian front in 1944, presents two women war correspondents - smart, sexy, and famous for scooping their male competitors - struggling to balance their professional lives with their love lives. Editor(s): Spanier, Sandra. Num Pages: 128 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 1. Weight in Grams: 198.
Written in the aftermath of World War II, Love Goes to Press opened in London in 1946 and on Broadway in 1947. At the time a relief for the survivors of Blitzkrieg and ration cards, today it is a devilishly entertaining portrayal of the Battle of the Sexes. In this romantic farce, set in a press camp on the Italian front in 1944, two women war correspondents-smart, sexy, and famous for scooping their male competitors-struggle to balance their professional lives with their love lives. The American literary tradition is replete with stories of men without women, but in Love Goes to Press Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles have created a world of women without men. Complications ensue when one of our heroines unexpectedly encounters her ex-husband, a famous writer whom she had divorced on the grounds of plagiarism. This Bison Books edition features a preface and an updated afterword by Sandra Spanier discussing her recent archival discoveries, her experience of working with Gellhorn to publish the play for the first time, and the strong resemblance of the leading man to Gellhorn's ex-husband, Ernest Hemingway.
Product Details
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
197g
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803226777
SKU
V9780803226777
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Martha Gellhorn
Martha Gellhorn (1908-98) had a six-decade career as a war correspondent and published sixteen books, including six novels, short fiction, and two collections of journalistic articles. Virginia Cowles (1912-83) also began her career as a war correspondent and wrote fifteen books of nonfiction, including the 1941 bestseller Looking for Trouble. Sandra Spanier is a professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, general editor of the Hemingway Letters Project, and author and editor of several books, including Kay Boyle: Artist and Activist.
Reviews for Love Goes to Press: A Comedy in Three Acts, Second Edition
Editor Sandra Spanier does a fine job, in this expanded edition of Love Goes to Press, of providing historical and literary context for the play. -Kaja Katamay, Feminist Review
Kaja Katamay
Feminist Review
This marvelously witty farce enjoyed a long, healthy run in London's West End. -Jack Helbig, Booklist
Booklist
Hilarious and fast-paced, the play has a brilliant ending that leaves readers to their own imaginations. And 50 years later, the characterization of the protagonists is still contemporary and real. -Ming-Ming Shen Kuo, Library Journal
Ming-Ming Shen Kuo
Library Journal
What's fascinating about Love Goes to Press is its saucy heroines' mix of competence, ambition, and lovelornness. . . . It's great to have them liberated from literary obscurity. -Carolyn Clay, Boston Phoenix Literary Section/DIV>
Carolyn Clay
Boston Phoenix Literary Section
Love Goes to Press was clearly fun to write and it must have played at a spanking pace. -Times Literary Supplement
Times Literary Supplement
Love Goes to Press's primary interest lies with its enduring humour and stageworthiness. Directors looking for plays by and about women would do well to consider it. -Deborah Zike, Theatre Research International
Deborah Zike
Theatre Research International
Kaja Katamay
Feminist Review
This marvelously witty farce enjoyed a long, healthy run in London's West End. -Jack Helbig, Booklist
Booklist
Hilarious and fast-paced, the play has a brilliant ending that leaves readers to their own imaginations. And 50 years later, the characterization of the protagonists is still contemporary and real. -Ming-Ming Shen Kuo, Library Journal
Ming-Ming Shen Kuo
Library Journal
What's fascinating about Love Goes to Press is its saucy heroines' mix of competence, ambition, and lovelornness. . . . It's great to have them liberated from literary obscurity. -Carolyn Clay, Boston Phoenix Literary Section/DIV>
Carolyn Clay
Boston Phoenix Literary Section
Love Goes to Press was clearly fun to write and it must have played at a spanking pace. -Times Literary Supplement
Times Literary Supplement
Love Goes to Press's primary interest lies with its enduring humour and stageworthiness. Directors looking for plays by and about women would do well to consider it. -Deborah Zike, Theatre Research International
Deborah Zike
Theatre Research International