Not Much Fun - Softcover

Silverstein

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743211480 ISBN 13: 9780743211482

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2001

Synopsis

During the early years of her career, while struggling to "keep body and soul apart" (as she ruefully put it later), Dorothy Parker wrote more than three hundred poems and verses for a variety of popular magazines and newspapers. Between 1926 and 1933 she collected most of these pieces in three volumes of poetry: Enough Rope, Sunset Gun, and Death and Taxes. The remaining poems and verses from America's most renowned cynic make up this volume. Eclectic and exuberant, these 122 once-forgotten gems display Parker's distinctive wit, irony, and precision, as she dissects early-twentieth-century American urban life and gleefully skewers a rich array of targets that range from personal foible to popular culture. With an authoritative, immensely entertaining, and critically acclaimed introduction by Stuart Y. Silverstein, Not Much Fun is an essential addition to the Dorothy Parker library and a welcome gift to her many admirers and devoted fans.

About this title

Review:

The San Francisco Review A work of enduring beauty and dark delight.

About the Author:

Stuart Y. Silverstein is a journalist and attorney whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, National Review, and National Law Journal, among other publications. A frequent contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary, Silverstein lives in Los Angeles, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0743211480
• ISBN 13: 9780743211482
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256