Maybe
Lillian Hellman

Maybe Yes, Maybe No – I’ve read this slim book three or perhaps four times before, and a while back I felt a desire to revisit the story. Not for the story’s sake, but for Lillian Hellman’s prose: her voice, her looping phrases and sentences that twist into a sort of backward glance. I was not disappointed. In fact, I felt a similar reaction to re-reading “Pentimento” a few years ago. Say what you will about Hellman and her veracity, it’s the writing I love. Her way with words. A talented way, indeed.