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Austen to Zafón
Austen to Zafón rated it 16 years ago
An excellent, detailed but not *too* detailed, thoroughly engrossing biography of Parker. If you like Parker, which I really do.
Reflections
Reflections rated it 16 years ago
Told through the tangled lives of four free-spirited but very different women in the same forward thinking, hard drinking New York literary circle, Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin is a brisk social history of 1920’s. There’s the surprisingly fragile Dorothy Parker, a scathingly clever but not especia...
EricCWelch
EricCWelch rated it 16 years ago
Eleanor grew up in the Dukedom of Aquitaine at a time when most of France was ruled by England. In northern Europe, and England, women had little social standing. Aquitaine, in the south, named "land of waters" by the Romans, was a rich land, filled with orchards and vineyards; life was good for tho...
CJ the Book Peddler
CJ the Book Peddler rated it 17 years ago
Have read stories but not the complete collection
EricCWelch
EricCWelch rated it 19 years ago
Bright as he was, or perhaps because he was so intelligent, Woody (born Allan Konigsberg) was a difficult child at school, often playing hooky, his mother making numerous trips to school to explain his behavior. He was a reluctant reader, although he would devour as many as fifty comic books per day...
It's a Hardback Life
It's a Hardback Life rated it 21 years ago
One of my all-time favorite books about Bohemian life in the early 20th century. I read this my Freshman year of college, and I think it partially informed my choice of becoming an art major.
Kathryn Lively, Reader
Kathryn Lively, Reader rated it 32 years ago
I read Parker voraciously in college. Her biography, as I recall, saddened me a bit.
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