Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
by:
Marion Meade (author)
Marion Meade's engrossing and comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's most captivating women In this lively, absorbing biography, Marion Meade illuminates both the charm and the dark side of Dorothy Parker, exploring her days of wicked wittiness at the Algonquin Round Table with...
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Marion Meade's engrossing and comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's most captivating women In this lively, absorbing biography, Marion Meade illuminates both the charm and the dark side of Dorothy Parker, exploring her days of wicked wittiness at the Algonquin Round Table with the likes of Robert Benchley, George Kaufman, and Harold Ross, and in Hollywood with S. J. Perelman, William Faulkner, and Lillian Hellman. At the dazzling center of it all, Meade gives us the flamboyant, self-destructive, and brilliant Dorothy Parker. This edition features a new afterword by Marion Meade.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781101462195 (1101462191)
Publish date: March 3rd 1989
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
American,
Biography Memoir,
Poetry,
United States,
Womens
This book reminds me of several others I've read about famous women - they're really good with the history, the details, the research, and well written - but because of the detail you know that this woman was NOT an easy person to really know, to befriend, or to be in the same room with. It's not ju...
An excellent, detailed but not *too* detailed, thoroughly engrossing biography of Parker. If you like Parker, which I really do.
I read Parker voraciously in college. Her biography, as I recall, saddened me a bit.
12 years ago
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