The Starched Blue Sky of Spain, and Other Memoirs: Memoirs of a Woman's Literary and Political Life..

By Josephine Herbst

Book Overview

During the last years of her life, several sections of Herbst's memoirs became famous when they were published in Noble Savageand New American Review. This previously unpublished one is now available in book form for the first time. A masterful essay on the idealism and the treachery of the Spanish Civil War, The Starched Blue Sky and Other Memoirs is also a beautiful observation of a literary/political life, and a classic account of growing up in Sioux City, Iowa, at the turn of the century.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006016512X
• ISBN13: 9780060165123
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 4.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.9" x 6.0"