H.G. Wells and Rebecca West

Chronicles the love affair and friendship between two imaginative writers, 1913-23, how it influenced their work, and how it crumbled because of their different situations and incompatible goals. When they met, he was 46, married, and a famous writer; she was 19, and just beginning a literary career that was later inhibited by their illegitimate child. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.