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One of the most quotable of twentieth-century authors, Dorothy Parker has attained a wide-ranging and enthusiastic following. This revised and enlarged edition, with an introduction by Brendan Gill, comprises the original 1944 Portable, as selected and arranged by Dorothy Parker herself and including all her most celebrated poems and stories, along with a selection of her later stories, play reviews, articles, book reviews from Esquire, and the complete Constant Reader, her collected New Yorker book reviews. - Back cover.… (más)
The short stories still exhibit the writing talent of Ms. Parker, ninety years or so on. The dialogue is true to my memory of how contrived a lot of the chit-chat from my parents' days was; she writes so that inflections of speech, and therefore subtle meanings, are recorded faithfully. I loved her savage wit and her sharp awareness of bad form when someone commits a social crime. Disappointment in love is a common theme. Ms Parker writes from her own experiences at how heart-braking it is. There is an introduction to this collection written by Brendan Gill. It is worth reading for an overall evaluation of her work. The copious number of poems, I have not dwelt on, but the final section is a selection of her reviews of books and theatre. These are often sparkling efforts, full of humour and outrage at the good and the bad.
This book has sat on my shelves for a decade. Until now. I'm glad I read it because now I can set it free. I've heard a lot about Dorothy Parker and I had built her into a cult hero poet in my mind...but found her poetry to be quite angsty and mostly centered about heteronormative romantic drama, beginnings and endings, and it was just not the sort of thing I'm drawn to. ( )
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Dorothy Parker's reputation as one of the wittiest women of the twentieth century was made on tart quotes and agile one liners. -- from the Introduction
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I promise that I will have Alan send those pictures, but I put them away in "a special place"; the rest is history. Yours, Dorothy Parker
One of the most quotable of twentieth-century authors, Dorothy Parker has attained a wide-ranging and enthusiastic following. This revised and enlarged edition, with an introduction by Brendan Gill, comprises the original 1944 Portable, as selected and arranged by Dorothy Parker herself and including all her most celebrated poems and stories, along with a selection of her later stories, play reviews, articles, book reviews from Esquire, and the complete Constant Reader, her collected New Yorker book reviews. - Back cover.
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Disappointment in love is a common theme. Ms Parker writes from her own experiences at how heart-braking it is.
There is an introduction to this collection written by Brendan Gill. It is worth reading for an overall evaluation of her work.
The copious number of poems, I have not dwelt on, but the final section is a selection of her reviews of books and theatre. These are often sparkling efforts, full of humour and outrage at the good and the bad.