Sometimes You Have to Lie

Leslie Brody

earliest edition we have, 2020 Basic Books, 2020 336 pages

Louise Fitzhugh's books are full of resistance: to liars, to conformity, to authority, and even (radically, for a children's author) to make-believe. As a commercial children's author and lesbian, Fitzhugh often had to disguise the nature of her most intimate relationships. She lived her life as a dissenter--a friend to underdogs, outsiders, and artists--and her masterpiece remains long after her death to influence a...

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Sometimes You Have to Lie edition · 2022 · Basic Books · 9781580057714
Sometimes You Have to Lie audiobook · 2021 · Seal Press · 9781549108846
Sometimes You Have to Lie edition · 2020 · Basic Books · 352 pages · 9781580057707
Sometimes You Have to Lie edition · 2020 · Basic Books · 336 pages · 9781580057691

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