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Lee Israel – Can You Ever Forgive Me? – First US Edition 2008
£150.00
A first edition, first printing of ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ published by Simon Schuster in 2008. A very good book, with one neat name (titles a little faded and toning to the page), in like wrapper with a small stain to the front panel and wear to the spine tips and corners.
A memoir by Lee Israel, a once-successful biographer whose career declined, leading her to forge and sell hundreds of fake letters purportedly written by famous literary figures like Dorothy Parker and Noël Coward. Written with biting wit and honesty, the book recounts her descent into crime, loneliness, and eventual capture.
It was adapted into the ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me’*, directed by Marielle Heller and starring Melissa McCarthy as Israel and Richard E. Grant as her accomplice Jack Hock. The film received critical acclaim and multiple Academy Award nominations.
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A first edition, first printing of ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ published by Simon Schuster in 2008. A very good book, with one neat name (titles a little faded and toning to the page), in like wrapper with a small stain to the front panel and wear to the spine tips and corners.
A memoir by Lee Israel, a once-successful biographer whose career declined, leading her to forge and sell hundreds of fake letters purportedly written by famous literary figures like Dorothy Parker and Noël Coward. Written with biting wit and honesty, the book recounts her descent into crime, loneliness, and eventual capture.
It was adapted into the ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me’*, directed by Marielle Heller and starring Melissa McCarthy as Israel and Richard E. Grant as her accomplice Jack Hock. The film received critical acclaim and multiple Academy Award nominations.
