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Parker

by Dorothy Parker
Elaine Stritch
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Dorothy Parker's quips and light verse have embedded themselves in the American literary landscape, but it was her prose that proved her star and demonstrated her talent as extending far beyond her time. In her fiction, she not only brought to life the urban milieu that was her bailiwick, but lay bare the uncertainties of ordinary people living ordinary lives, all told in her unflinching and deeply personal voice.
In these selected stories, read for you by Elaine Stritch, we have the chance to draw upon her insight into the social and emotional realities of human nature.
The following stories are featured in this audiobook collection:
  *  Big Blonde
  *  Too Bad
  *  The Song Of The Shirt
  *  Mr. Durant
  *  From The Diary Of A New York Lady
  *  The Standard Of Living
  *  The Garter
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Publisher: Books on Tape Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781984885708
  • File size: 85327 KB
  • Release date: August 21, 2018
  • Duration: 02:57:45

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subjects

Classic Literature Fiction Literature Short Stories

Languages

English

Dorothy Parker's quips and light verse have embedded themselves in the American literary landscape, but it was her prose that proved her star and demonstrated her talent as extending far beyond her time. In her fiction, she not only brought to life the urban milieu that was her bailiwick, but lay bare the uncertainties of ordinary people living ordinary lives, all told in her unflinching and deeply personal voice.
In these selected stories, read for you by Elaine Stritch, we have the chance to draw upon her insight into the social and emotional realities of human nature.
The following stories are featured in this audiobook collection:
  *  Big Blonde
  *  Too Bad
  *  The Song Of The Shirt
  *  Mr. Durant
  *  From The Diary Of A New York Lady
  *  The Standard Of Living
  *  The Garter
Expand title description text
Classic Literature Fiction Literature Short Stories
This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Funding for additional materials was made possible by a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.