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Dorothy Parker [electronic resource] : What Fresh Hell Is This?

Meade, Marion2006
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She was known for her outrageous one-liners, her ruthless theater criticism, her clever verses and bittersweet stories. But there was another side of Dorothy Parker: a private life set on a course of destruction through two divorces, a string of painful affairs, a lifelong problem with alcohol, and several suicide attempts. In this lively, absorbing biography, Marion Meade illuminates both sides of the fascinating Parker: her dark days, as well as her days in the sun at the Algonquin Round Table with 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.
Author:
Meade, Marion, AuthorConlin, Grace, Narrator
Edition:
Unabridged
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Blackstone Publishing, 2006
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Marion Meade is the author of Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? She has also written biographies of Woody Allen, Buster Keaton, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Madame Blavatsky, and Victoria Woodhull, as well as two novels about medieval France. She lives in New York City.
ISBN:
9781483068879
Language:
English
BRN:
2896304
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