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Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
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Meade, Marion
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Penguin Publishing Group 1989
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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.
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Street Date:
03/03/1989
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781101462195
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Marion Meade. (1989). Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? Penguin Publishing Group.

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Marion Meade. 1989. Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? Penguin Publishing Group.

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Marion Meade, Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? Penguin Publishing Group, 1989.

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Marion Meade. Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? Penguin Publishing Group, 1989.

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This edition features a new afterword by Marion Meade.
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        ``Meade's lively biography recounts the unhappy life of the wise-cracking versifier, short story writer and critic,'' reported PW. ``So detailed is Meade's book that this, one imagines, is the last time a biographer will need to explain why so talented a writer could at the same time be so nasty a human being.'' Photos.

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This edition features a new afterword by Marion Meade.
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