The portable Dorothy Parker

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Grouping Title	portable dorothy parker
Grouping Author	penguin books
Grouping Category	book
Grouping Language	English (eng)
Last Grouping Update	2024-04-17 10:37:29AM
Last Indexed	2024-04-20 03:11:14AM

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Adult Non-Fiction

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Athens Drive Community - Adult Non-Fiction

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The second revision in sixty years, this sublime collection ranges over the verse, stories, essays, and journalism of one of the twentieth century's most quotable authors. There are some stories new to the Portable, "Such a Pretty Little Picture," along with a selection of articles written for such disparate publications as Vogue, McCall's, House and Garden, and New Masses. At the heart of her serious work lies her political writings ? racial, labor, international ? and so "Soldiers of the Republic" is joined by reprints of "Not Enough" and "Sophisticated Poetry ? And the Hell With It," both of which first appeared in New Masses. "A Dorothy Parker Sampler" blends the sublime and the silly with the terrifying, a sort of tasting menu of verse, stories, essays, political journalism, a speech on writing, plus a catchy off-the-cuff rhyme she never thought to write down. "Self-Portrait" reprints an interview she did in 1956 with the Paris Review, part of a famed ongoing series of conversations ("Writers at Work") that the literary journal conducted with the best of twentieth-century writers. What makes the interviews so interesting is that they were permitted to edit their transcripts before publication, resulting in miniature autobiographies. "Letters: 1905-1962," which might be subtitled "Mrs. Parker Completely Uncensored," presents correspondence written over the period of a half century, beginning in 1905 when twelve-year-old Dottie wrote her father during a summer vacation on Long Island, and concluding with a 1962 missive from Hollywood describing her fondness for Marilyn Monroe.

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Book

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784d51ae-b830-d8f3-0d8c-a770b404ae56

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9780143039532

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-1

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Non Fiction

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Non Fiction

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818 PARKE

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Wake County Public Libraries

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Athens Drive Community

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9780143039532

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2006

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Penguin Books

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Penguin classics deluxe edition

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Penguin classics deluxe edition|

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American literature
American literature -- 20th century
American wit and humor
English literature
Short stories

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The portable Dorothy Parker

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The portable Dorothy Parker / with an introduction by Marion Meade

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The portable Dorothy Parker

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American literature
American wit and humor
English literature

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ils:684017	5277118	Athens Drive Community - Adult Non-Fiction	818 PARKE			1	false	false			Checked out		ADR

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Bib Id	Format	Format Category	Edition	Language	Publisher	Publication Date	Physical Description	Abridged
ils:684017	Book	Books	Second revised edition	English	Penguin Books	2006	xxviii, 626 pages ; 22 cm.

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