Complete Poems - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0143106082 ISBN 13: 9780143106081

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2025

Riassunto

Ricordata soprattutto come membro della Algonquin Round Table, la leggendaria cerchia letteraria dell'Età del Jazz, Dorothy Parker si è costruita la reputazione di una delle poetesse più amate dell'epoca. L'arguzia satirica e l'umorismo tagliente della Parker le hanno fatto guadagnare la fama di donna più arguta d'America. Questa edizione della sua poesia della Penguin Classics, complementare ai Complete Stories della Parker e introdotta dalla sua nota biografa, Marion Meade, è l'unica raccolta completa disponibile, che mette in mostra le battute asciutte e i versi penetranti e introspettivi di una scrittrice la cui leggenda continua ad affascinare.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Dorothy Parker was born in West End, New Jersey, in 1893 and grew up in New York, attending a Catholic convent school and Miss Dana's School in Morristown, New Jersey. In 1916 she sold some of her poetry to the editor of Vogue, and was subsequently given an editorial position on the magazine, writing captions for fashion photographs and drawings. She then became drama critic of Vanity Fairand the central figure of the celebrated Algonquin Round Table.Famous for her spoken wit, she showed the same trenchant commentary in her book reviews for The New Yorker and Esquire and in her poems and sketches. Her collection of poems included Not So Deep as a Well and Enough Rope, which became a bestseller; and her collections of stories included Here Lies. She also collaborated with Elmer Rice on a play, Close Harmony and with Arnaud d'Usseau on the play the Ladies of the Corridor. She herself had two Broadway plays written about her and was portrayed as a character in a third. Her cynicism and the concentration of her judgements were famous and she has been closely associated with modern urbane humour.
Her first husband was Edwin Pond Parker II, and although they were divorced some years later, she continued to use his name, which she much preferred to her own of Rothschild. Her second husband was an actor-writer Alan Campbell. They went to Hollywood as a writing team and went through a tempestuous marriage until his death in 1963, when Dorothy Parker returned to New York. She died in 1967.

Marion Meade is the author of Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? andBobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties. She has also written biographies of Woody Allen, Buster Keaton, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Victoria Woodhull, and Madame Blavatsky, as well as two novels about medieval France.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0143106082
• ISBN 13: 9780143106081
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 432
• Contatto del produttore: Penguin Random House Ireland Limited; productsafety@penguin.co.uk