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Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs Of A Literary Forger (2008)

by Lee Israel(Favorite Author)

3.18 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1416588671 (ISBN13: 9781416588672)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Simon & Schuster

review 1: I'm classifying this one as an adventure since it was a very frank account of Lee Israel's foray into literary forgery and her descent into federal prosecution. Israel's crime was inventive and a bit whimsical, albeit unethical with twinges of desperation. A talented writer under her own name, Israel's book is tightly and candidly written. Not terribly thrilling or overtly hilarious, but a very pleasant read. The blurb from Katherine Hepburn on the back cover was probably my favorite part.
review 2: I love unrepentant criminals. Lee Israel commits her first criminal act on behalf of her cat, so she can pay her vet bill. She forges a letter and sells it to a dealer. She then proceeds to forge and sell over 400 letters over the next few years. She's remorsefu... morel about stealing from libraries, which came later in her criminal life, but she's actually proud of her creative output when she was forging letters by Dorothy Parker, Lillian Hellman, Noel Coward and others. A quick read that's worth the time. less

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