I listened to this by a fabulous narrator! Why are literary people so sad? It is comic writing, but there was such sadness behind the words. There is also an upper-class snobbishness that she pokes fun at, but it is so obvious that she was a part of that world. I got a bit bored by the end...and sad! (Apparently, Hemingway did not like her, but he did not like many people.)
It is another book this year where I read about life in New York in the 1920s.
Not everyone is so unhappy, Dorothy. I think she died alone. I haven't watched the documentary on her on YouTube yet. Let me watch it and see if that is the case. Yep, the YouTube documentary says it all. It is interesting. She was an alcoholic. :(
Mrs. Parker, as she liked to be called, became one of the most quoted writers of her time because of her singular gift for sharpening truths into well-honed words; her barbed ability was unparalleled in her day and hasn’t been equaled since. In 1944, she selected and arranged this collection of her stories and poems for presentation in a single volume. It has since been expanded to include some of her later stories, as well as theater reviews and essays, and the complete archive of her terrific Constant Reader book column from The New Yorker. Spanning her career and containing the bulk of her work, this is truly a treasure trove.
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