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Loading... The Portable Dorothy Parker (Viking Portable Library)by Dorothy ParkerSeries: Penguin Classics Deluxe
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I really enjoyed the stories although I must admit I skipped the reviews. What can I say? I'm on a short story kick right now. (  ) bookweaver | Nov 2, 2008 |  Clever and bleak. casnaz | Nov 26, 2007 | Parker's works and her contributions to the American short-story genre are sinfully neglected. This book is an excellent place to remedy that oversight. (  ) sdr19899 | Apr 17, 2007 | Parker displayed a keen wit and the ability to deliver short but piercing observations on American life in the early twentieth century. Her short stories amuse and yet almost always depress as well. Her poems are bitter little pills. Her book and play reviews are not to be missed. Some of her very best writing is in these under appreciated gems. ( ) AlexTheHunn | Nov 22, 2005 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0140150749, Paperback)Before there was Fran Leibowitz, there was Dorothy Parker. Before there was practically anyone, there was Dorothy Parker. When it comes to expressing the pleasure and pain of being just a touch too smart to be happy, she's winner and still champion after all these years. Along with Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, and the rest of the Algonquin Round Table, she dominated American pop lit in the '20s and '30s; like Ginger Rogers, she did it all backwards. Parker's held up well--maybe the best of all of them.This book is essential for any Parker fan, and an excellent way for new readers to make her acquaintance. It reprints her finest short stories and poems, some later articles, and all of her excellent "Constant Reader" book reviews from the Depression-era glory days of the New Yorker. The poetry, always light, has become brittle, sorry to say. But you've only to pick any story to be reminded that no middle-distance writer was better than Parker at her best. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:22 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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