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	Bulk Discounts Buy... Save... 25 - 99 40% 100 - 249 45% 250 - 499 47% 500 - 999 50% 1000 or more 55% List Price: $30.00 Our Price: $18.00 for 25 - 99 copies You save $12.00! Published: October 2001 ISBN: 0786708921, 9780786708925 Format Hardcover Publisher: Da Capo Press Carton Quantity: 22 (Minimum order):  25 Availability:: Usually Ships in 24 to 72 Hours Product Code: 9780786708925 Buy It New: Bulk savings applied automatically at checkout. Orders typically ship in 1 to 4 business days, subject to inventory on hand and quantity ordered. Please call us if you have any questions or special needs. Qty:

Description   For more than forty years, since the day her illustrious father died, Jo Hammett has kept her silence. Now, for the first time, with uncompromising candor and profound admiration, she tells the story of Dashiell Hammett—Hollywood screenwriter and high-flying author of The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man—as she knew him. In Jo Hammett's earliest recollections, although her already famous father exists outside the sphere of the daily life she shares with her mother and sister, he writes to Jo frequently and visits when he can. Jo's memories of him are golden: She recalls a trip to the Santa Anita racetrack in a chauffeur-driven limousine, where Hammett plays more on the horses than he can afford; she recalls a Depression-era excursion to Beverly Hills and a splurge that would have supported an entire family for a month—on a riding outfit. With more ambivalence, she remembers the 1950s, when she assumes her responsibility as the sole designated correspondent with her blacklisted, imprisoned father and her role as go-between for him and Lillian Hellman. The notorious Hammett-Hellman romance, Dash's rude flirtations, his heavy drinking, his attraction to Communism, his quirks and betrayals and paternal love—Jo Hammett neither blinks at her father's faults nor diminishes his humanity. In straightforward prose, with unaffected charm, she offers in this generously illustrated volume a revealing personal reminiscence that contributes immeasurably to Hammett biography.   Related Products... Charles Darwin: The Naturalist Who Started a Scie In the Moment: My Life as an Actor (Hardcover) Three Cups of Tea (Hardcover) Lucy & Desi: The Real Life Scrapbook of America's Our Price: $15.60 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $15.60 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $18.68 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $21.00 for 25 - 99 copies Add Last Mountain Dancer: Hard-Earned Lessons in Love Joan Crawford: Hollywood Martyr (Hardcover) Keeping Faith: A Father-Son Story About Love and A Life In Leadership: From D-Day to Ground Zero: Our Price: $15.00 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $15.57 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $15.00 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $15.60 for 25 - 99 copies Add

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