The Collected Dorothy Parker

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PENGUIN TWENTIETH - CENTURY CLASSICí THE COLLECTED DOROTHY PARKER 'She wrote poetry that was at least as good as the best of Millay and Housman. She wrote somé storíes that are easily as good as somé of O'Hara and Hemingway' - John Keats, Dorothy Parker's biographer Dorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of her age in her writing. The decadent twenties and thirties in New York were a time of great experiment and daring for women. For the rich, life seemed a continual party, but the excesses took their emotional toll. With a biting wit and perceptive insight, Dorothy Parker examines the social móres of her day and exposes the darkness beneath the dazzle. Her own life exemplified this duality, for while she was one of the most talked-about women of her day, rich and gifted, she was alsó known as 'a masochist whose passión for unhappiness knew no bounds'. As philosopher Irwin Edman said, she was 'a Sappho who could combine a heartbreak with a... Tovább

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PENGUIN TWENTIETH - CENTURY CLASSICí THE COLLECTED DOROTHY PARKER 'She wrote poetry that was at least as good as the best of Millay and Housman. She wrote somé storíes that are easily as good as somé of O'Hara and Hemingway' - John Keats, Dorothy Parker's biographer Dorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of her age in her writing. The decadent twenties and thirties in New York were a time of great experiment and daring for women. For the rich, life seemed a continual party, but the excesses took their emotional toll. With a biting wit and perceptive insight, Dorothy Parker examines the social móres of her day and exposes the darkness beneath the dazzle. Her own life exemplified this duality, for while she was one of the most talked-about women of her day, rich and gifted, she was alsó known as 'a masochist whose passión for unhappiness knew no bounds'. As philosopher Irwin Edman said, she was 'a Sappho who could combine a heartbreak with a wisecrack'. Her brilliant dissection of the Jazz Age in poetry and prose is collected in this volume along with articles and reviews. It is, in short, the definitive Dorothy Parker. 'Ali her beststories are autobiography. She is the girl praying to God for the phone to ring in A Telephone Call, she is Big Blonde taking an overdose of Veronai... it is a good fat book ... greatly to be welcomed' - Richárd Ingrams in Books and Bookmen The cover photograph shows Dorothy Parker in the I920s (photo; Bettmann Archive) Vissza