Dorothy Parker : what fresh hell is this? / Marion Meade.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meade, Marion, 1934-2022.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parker, Dorothy, 1893-1967.

Parker, Dorothy.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

United States.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xix, 459 pages of plates, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin, 1989.

Summary:

Chronicles the life of author and critic Dorothy Parker, discussing her literary influences, battle with alcohol, divorces, affairs, career highs and lows, suicide attempts, and other related topics.

Contents:

The Algonquin hotel, Summer 1927

The events leading up to the tragedy, 1893-1903

Palimpset, 1903-1914

Vanity fair, 1915-1919

Cub lions, 1919

The Algonquin round table, 1920-1921

Painkillers, 1922-1923

Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye, 1923-1924

"Yesser, the whaddyecall'em blues," 1925

Global disasters, 1926

Big blonde, 1927-1928

Sonnets in suicide, or the life of John Knox, 1929-1932

You might as well live, 1933-1935

Good fights, 1936-1937

Bad fights, 1936-1941

The leaking boat, 1942-1947

Toad time, 1948-1955

High-forceps deliveries, 1955-1960

Ham and cheese, hold the mayo, 1961-1964

Lady of the corridor, 1964-1967.

Notes:

"A biography"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-443) and index.

ISBN:

0140116168

9780140116168

OCLC:

18351200

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