Selected Readings from The Portable Dorothy Parker - Dorothy Parker
Category: Anthology
Narrator: Lorna Raver
Tags: Anthology, Adults, Literature
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Release date: January 1, 2006 Duration: 13:23:18, Marion Meade - editor, When it comes to expressing the pleasure and pain of being just a touch too smart to be happy, Dorothy Parker is still the champion, after all these years. Along with Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, and the rest of the Algonquin Round Table, she dominated American popular literature in the 1920s and 1930s., These unabridged selections of more than thirty short stories and poems is essential for any Parker fan and an excellent way for new readers to make the acquaintance of one of the twentieth centurys most quotable authors, whose memorable lines include: She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B, This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force, and Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Parkers ability to lay bare the follies, myths, and hypocrisies of her characters in such a wickedly funnysometimes sadmanner is unmatched, an
