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An edition of Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? (1987)

Dorothy Parker

what fresh hell is this?

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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.

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Penguin
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English

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Subjects
American Authors, Authors, American, Biography, History, Women and literature, American Women authors, Parker, dorothy, 1893-1967, New York Times reviewed
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Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
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United States
Times
20th century

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Dorothy Parker
August 1997, Blackstone Audiobooks
Audio Cassette in English
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Dorothy Parker
June 6, 1991, Minerva
Paperback - New Ed edition
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Dorothy Parker: what fresh hell is this?
1989, Penguin
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Dorothy Parker: what fresh hell is this?
1989, Penguin
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Dorothy Parker: what fresh hell is this?
1989, Heinemann Mandarin
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DOROTHY PARKER
1988, Villard Books
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Dorothy Parker: what fresh hell is this?
1988, Villard Books
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Dorothy Parker: what fresh hell is this?
1988, Heinemann
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Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This
December 12, 1987, Villard
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Table of 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
818/.5209
Library of Congress
PS3531.A5855

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OL27928173M
ISBN 10
1101461934, 1101462191
ISBN 13
9781101461938, 9781101462195
OCLC/WorldCat
748370802

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Dorothy Parker was known for her outrageous one-liners, her ruthless theater criticism, her clever verses and bittersweet stories, but there was another side to Dorothy Parker--a private life, set on a course of destruction. She suffered 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 the dark side of Parker and 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 Lilian Hellman. At the dazzling center of it all, Meade gives us the flamboyant, self-destructive, and brilliant Dorothy Parker.

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