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Combining through Parker's stories, poems, articles, reviews, correspondence, and even her rare journalism and song lyrics, editor Barry Day has selected and arranged passages that describe her life and its preoccupations-urban living, the theater and cinema, battle of the sexes, and death by dissipation.
Product Details
| Publisher | Taylor Trade Publishing |
| Publish Date | March 31, 2004 |
| Pages | 203 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Hardback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781589790711 |
| Dimensions | 9.3 X 6.3 X 0.9 inches | 1.0 pounds |
BISAC Categories: Biography & Memoir
About the Author
Barry Day is the editor of P.G. Wodehouse: In His Own Words and Sherlock Holmes: In His Own Words. He lives in New York City and Palm Beach, Florida.
Reviews
Day organizes her famous witticisms into a kind of autobiography, walking us through her preoccupations-women and men, love, death, art-in a way that shows us she did indeed bequeath us reminiscence in the form of her own verse, short stories and those marvelous stinging reviews.
.....informative and entertaining....
Barry Day finds his perfect subject in Dorothy Parker, the pessimistic muse of the wits of the Algonquin Round Table who epitomized the spirit of New York and the 1920s and 1930s.
One writer described her as a mixture between Little Nell and Lady Macbeth. Yet the witty Dorothy Parker mostly seemed sad. Her short stories and verse highlight the plight of women who can't fit in, who can't find a mate.
.....informative and entertaining....
Barry Day finds his perfect subject in Dorothy Parker, the pessimistic muse of the wits of the Algonquin Round Table who epitomized the spirit of New York and the 1920s and 1930s.
One writer described her as a mixture between Little Nell and Lady Macbeth. Yet the witty Dorothy Parker mostly seemed sad. Her short stories and verse highlight the plight of women who can't fit in, who can't find a mate.
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