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Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
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This edition features a new afterword by Marion Meade.
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Traces the life of the American journalist, screenwriter, and wit, describes relationships with the other members of the Algonquin Round Table, and attem to portray her complex personality.
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Maybe Marion Meade watches Lifetime TV a little too often, as her volume on Dorothy Parker has about as much punch as an anemic anorexic. Am I really expected to absorb page after page of Meade's re-telling of Parker's rise to literary fame and personal defeat, without ever encountering a four-letter word? (OK, once or twice, but c'mon!) I couldn't tell if Meade was intimidated by her subject, or felt it best to take a kindler, gentler approach to the forked-tongued legend. She hits all the obligatory marks: Parker's friendship with Robert Benchley, her drinking problem, the failed marriages, etc. If you are looking for a serious volume that speaks of Parker's stormy life, yet doesn't brush over the literary highlights, then please, I beg you, skip this one. Meade's chronological, plodding glimpes into Parker's world often include gaping holes, though if you can follow the basic plot lines of any given daytime soap, you shouldn't bother yourself with too much head-scratching. Meade has Parker writing a ditty, inspired by Benchley, published in The New Yorker on page 112, so of course, by page 114 it's time for us, the captive reader, to learn how the great magazine was founded--spoon fed, style. If you are familiar with Parker as that witty flapper lady who wrote "Big Blonde", then Meade's work will be gratifying. However, Parker herself also wrote "I Hate Women--They Get On My Nerves." Her sentiment can certainly be applied to Marion Meade's diluted biography. She undoubtedly tried her best, and probably sleuthed out some uncovered tidbits, but Meade's grasp on her subject is about as tight as Parker's was over her own life. Maybe that's the point, but Parker managed to have substance AND style, which are not words that can apply to "What Fresh Hell is This"? The title says it all.
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Not my kind of biography. Its gossipy tone wore thin after the first fifty pages; after that, I spent the rest of the read searching (in vain) for some pattern, some contingency, some attempt on Meade's part to present the events of Parker's tragic life in any sort of meaningful way. If such a framework was there, I missed it. It just read like a long, dreary cat fest to me.
Also, was I the only one that noticed how poorly edited this book was? I counted six passages where the same information was repeated twice --- again, not in a meaningful way, just phrases redundantly stuck there, like two forks in a Thanksgiving turkey.
I gave it 3 stars instead of one or two, because I thought it might be a interesting read for someone who enjoys a biography with a lot of juicy gossip.
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This is a vivid well written book about the life and times of legendary wit and wordsmith Dorothy Parker. Marion Meade gives the reader a colorful view of that boozy, eccentric group The Algonquin Round Table of which Dorothy was the reigning "femme fatale". Parker's life as portrayed here was not an easy one being as it was plagued by alcoholism, emotional agonies and literary output of uneven quality. This book expertly depicts an era that has passed and some of those names who made it notable.
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Terrific!
This is one of the best biographies I have ever read. It flows beautifully & gives full credit to the remarkable life Mrs. Parker lead. Thank you Ms. Meade!
Am 8. November 1999 veröffentlicht
The light and the dark sides of a literary legend
Meade's book, obviously the result of years of research, takes the reader behind the public image of Dorothy Parker as just the rapier wit of the Algonquin Round Table to show us... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 29. Mai 1999 von A Fan
Finally!
Work that is tip-top and about time, too. It's interesting that Meade is nearly able to mask the dog-like labor that has gone into this product with a magnificent... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 18. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
Candid, outrageous, sad and saucy...Just like Mrs. Parker!
"What Fresh Hell is This" was recommended to me by a co-worker. I found it to be a very easy read about a woman about whom we don't know much. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 4. März 1999 veröffentlicht
The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
Like many of her witty pals at the Algonquin roundtable, Parker is relatively unknown to the general public today. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 3. Oktober 1997 von bopcomic@hotmail.com
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