| Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? Contributor(s): Meade, Marion (Author) |
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ISBN: 0140116168 ISBN-13: 9780140116168 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $19.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1989 Annotation: Dorothy Parker was known as the wittiest woman in America during the 1920s and 1930s. In this lively, absorbing biography, Meade illuminates both the dark side of Parker and her days of wicked wittiness at the Alguonquin Round Table with the likes of William Faulkner. Photos. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 88023782 |
| Physical Information: 1.27" H x 6.08" W x 9.11" (1.33 lbs) 459 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Marion Meade's engrossing and comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's most captivating women In this lively, absorbing biography, Marion Meade illuminates both the charm and the dark side of Dorothy Parker, exploring her days of wicked wittiness at the Algonquin Round Table with the likes of Robert Benchley, George Kaufman, and Harold Ross, and in Hollywood with S. J. Perelman, William Faulkner, and Lillian Hellman. At the dazzling center of it all, Meade gives us the flamboyant, self-destructive, and brilliant Dorothy Parker. This edition features a new afterword by Marion Meade. |