Adina Hoffman: Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures (Jewish Lives) [2019] hardback Condition:New Encourage your child to live

Encourage your child to live in the moment and expand their emotional intelligence with the tools in this book

She is responsible for three of the four deaths

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

Adina Hoffman: Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures (Jewish Lives) [2019] hardback Condition:New Encourage your child to liveFrom 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