Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
by Marion Meade
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Author: Marion MeadeEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1989-03-03
ISBN: 0140116168
Number of pages: 458
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Book Review: She Knew Everyone
Summary: 4 Stars
This biography of Dorthy Parker was very good.Not only did I learn about Parker but, I learned about her friends and aquiantances ( F.Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Benchly, Lillian Hellman, Robert Sherwood,George Kaufman, Ernest Hemingway etc.).
She was one the founders of the legendary "round table" ; however there's not much clever repartee reported in this book. Members of the round table including Parker were heavy duty drinkers which may have contributed to their relatively early deaths. Dorthy outlived most of them.
Dorthy was a prograstinator who missed dealines for magazine articles and books. From the 1930s on, it appeared that the amount of published work was small.Many of the screenplays she worked on in Hollywood never made it to the big screen and the most of the small amount that did were not memoriable.
She and her second husband Allan Campbell were paid large sums of money for their Hollywood work. The couple had frequent cocktale parties.
Throughout her life, Dorthy had dogs that were never trained. It seemed in the book that she was always acquiring dogs.
As she aged, people were always taking care of her ( No where in the book does it mentioned that she ever helped others.). Young writers were attracted to her.
This biography of Dorthy Parker was well written. Although the subject was not that likeable, this book about her life was.
Summary of Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
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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