The life and tiems of Dorothy Parker. Because she said and wrote so many funny lines, it was widely presumed that Dorothy Parker's Life was a ceaselessly merry one. Seh did have a great deal of funbut Parker was also an artist tormented by her own merciless sensibilities, viewing mankind with a wry, hard suspicion.
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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Check Your Sources,
This review is from: You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker (Paperback)
John Keats is belittlingly sexist in his treatment of Dorothy Parker in his biography, saying hideous things like, "what they [Parker's friends] failed to realize was that Dorothy Parker was like all other women in one terrifyingly simple respect," without further explanation, and calling his subject "little Miss Parker" throughout. To make matters worse, Keats did not properly check sources, and as a consequence committed grave factual errors in the work. For example, he talks about Dorothy's four years at Miss Dana's finishing school, when Parker only attended the school for a year. The list of mistakes continues.
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Don't buy it!,
By A G Kingston (Rose Park, South Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker (Paperback)
Horribly partial male-chauvanistic telling of Dorothy Parker's life - embarrassingly dated. As Dorothy would have said, this is not a biography to be cast aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force!
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A wonderful biography of Dorothy Parker,
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This review is from: You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker (Paperback)
I'm glad my father had a copy of this book in his library - I'm sorry to see that it's gone out of print. It's a really good biography of Mrs. Parker - and, one of the best features, has an extensive bibliography at the end, rife with other titles that simply beg to be read.
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