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Dorothy Parker: In Her Own Words
Barry Day
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Description for Dorothy Parker: In Her Own Words
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BG; G; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 512.
Despite her prolific output, ageless writer and wit Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) never penned an autobiography (although if she had, she said that it would have been titled Mongrel). Combing through her 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, the battle of the sexes, and death by dissipation. Best known for her scathing pieces for the New Yorker and her membership in the Algonquin Round Table ("The greatest collection of unsaleable wit in America."), Parker ... Read more
Despite her prolific output, ageless writer and wit Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) never penned an autobiography (although if she had, she said that it would have been titled Mongrel). Combing through her 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, the battle of the sexes, and death by dissipation. Best known for her scathing pieces for the New Yorker and her membership in the Algonquin Round Table ("The greatest collection of unsaleable wit in America."), Parker ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor Trade Publishing United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
500g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Lanham, United States
ISBN
9781589790711
SKU
V9781589790711
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Ref
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About Barry Day
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 for Dorothy Parker: In Her Own Words
.....informative and entertaining....
Library Journal
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.
Post and Courier
Day organizes her famous witticisms into a kind of autobiography, walking us through her preoccupations—women and ... Read more
Library Journal
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.
Post and Courier
Day organizes her famous witticisms into a kind of autobiography, walking us through her preoccupations—women and ... Read more