Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? (Audiobook)

from setnahkt

It's hard to figure out just what to make of Dorothy Parker. She was a charter member of the Algonquin Round Table, sort of a 20th century version of the Mermaid Tavern; one of the most incisive book and drama critics of her time (“This is not a book to be tossed aside lightly. It should be throw...

from Skyehighmileage

Well researched and thoughtfully put together my main complaint is that in this particular edition the font size is just one or two points too small to be comfortable; I don't usually find this ever a problem and it's really interfering with the pleasure so source a different edition, but do read...

from elizabethn

good book about a sad lady who wrote hateful, witty poems about crummy men.

from ChazziFrazz

This was an enjoyable and informative bio on Dorothy Parker. Known for her wit and acerbic pen, she gave the impression of a tough-as-nails broad. This book tells of a much more complicated person.A member of the Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s, she was just one of the number of famous writers...

from Lyndatrue

A truly excellent and honest portrait of one of the best. "Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne." Marion Meade does justice to Dorothy, and it almost feels like an autobiography (except kinder than Ms Parker would have been).