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    Dorothy Parker

    What Fresh Hell Is This?

    Author Marion Meade
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    $32.00 US
    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Books
    6"W x 9.02"H x 1.32"D   | 20 oz | 24 per carton
    On sale Mar 03, 1989 | 480 Pages | 9780140116168
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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.
    MARION MEADE is the author of DOROTHY PARKER: What Fresh Hell Is This? She has also written biographies of Woody Allen, Buster Keaton, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Madame Blavatsky, and Victoria Woodhull, as well as two novels about medieval France. She lives in New York City. View titles by Marion Meade

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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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    MARION MEADE is the author of DOROTHY PARKER: What Fresh Hell Is This? She has also written biographies of Woody Allen, Buster Keaton, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Madame Blavatsky, and Victoria Woodhull, as well as two novels about medieval France. She lives in New York City. View titles by Marion Meade

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