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Complete Stories - Dorothy Parker, Mikki Bresse, Regina Barreca
Complete Stories
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780140189391 (0140189394)
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 447
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics, Humor, Literature, Book Club, Adult Fiction, American, Classic Literature, Literary Fiction, Anthologies, Short Stories
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Garden-of-Stars
Garden-of-Stars rated it
4.0 Complete Stories
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I am convinced Dorothy Parker is my spirit animal. She’s dark and witty and sarcastic and cruel and I loved every second of it. I had a long talk with my professor one day about several of these stories and how beautifully bitter they are, and the extent to which Parker was criticizing the role of w...
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wjmcomposer
wjmcomposer rated it
2.0 Complete Stories
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I was oddly disappointed in this. Not in the quality of the writing, which is superb. The author sets out to accomplish a task, and the technique of writing is bent and twisted to her will, achieving her vision exactly as her mind's eye must have seen it. My complaint is simply with her intended eff...
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The Librariest
The Librariest rated it
4.0 The Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker: Edited by Colleen Breese (UNABRIDGED) (1995)
text The Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker: Edited by Colleen Breese (UNABRIDGED) (1995)
Scalpel sharp character studies that need to be taken in intermediate doses, otherwise all faith in humanity would be lost. It does make one wonder whether Ms. Parker ever met any decent people.
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The Paris Review Interviews, I - Joan Didion, Jorge Luis Borges, Dorothy Parker, Truman Capote, Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, Robert Stone, Kurt Vonnegut, Saul Bellow, Robert Gottlieb, Philip Gourevitch, Elizabeth Bishop, The Paris Review, Rebecca West, Richard Price, Billy Wilder, Jack Gilbert, James M
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Fifty Great Short Stories - Edith Wharton, E.M. Forster, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, John Steinbeck, W. Somerset Maugham, Dorothy Parker, Francis Steegmuller, Guy de Maupassant, Ernest Hemingway, H.G. Wells, James Joyce, H.L. Mencken, Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Mansfield, Joseph Conrad,
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