Dorothy Parker

Enough Rope

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Produktbeschreibung

Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses > Renowned for her acerbic wit, cynicism, and satirical humor, Dorothy Parker skewered the pretensions of everyday life and clichéd relations between men and women in her debut poetry collection, Enough Rope, published in 1926. Originally printed in Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Life magazine, her early poems were a runaway success with the young, liberated women of the Jazz Age. Notable for their lighthearted, clever verse and razor-sharp quips, the selections include "The False Friends," "Godspeed," "News Item," "Résumé," "Verse for a Certain Dog," "A Well-Worn Story," and dozens of others. Once known as "the wittiest woman in America," Parker was a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table and the Screen Writers Guild.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dover Publications
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 204mm x 127mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 94g
• ISBN-13: 9780486850436
• ISBN-10: 0486850439
• Artikelnr.: 66353286

Autorenporträt

DOROTHY PARKER (1893-1967) was born in New Jersey and grew up in New York. In 1916 she sold some poems to Vogue and was given a job at the magazine writing captions for fashion photographs and drawings. Parker went on to become a drama critic at Vanity Fair and the central figure of the celebrated Algonquin Round Table. Famous for her spoken wit, she showed the same satiric gift in her book reviews for The New Yorker and Esquire and in her celebrated poems and stories.