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Synopsis
A party is the ultimate social crucible and playground, an opportunity for the gregarious to shine, the wallflower to shrink, the arriviste to jockey for position, and the gatecrasher to finesse his unexpected arrival. Many novelists, playwrights and poets have used parties as tour de force set pieces to portray the dynamics of character, plot and social interaction; this fabulously entertaining collection gathers for the first time the best writing about this most social of rituals from such diverse sources as:
Truman Capote
the Bible
Martin Amis
Dominick Dunne
T.S. Eliot
Daphne DuMaurier
Tom Wolfe
Colette
Harold Pinter
Lord Byron
Evelyn Waugh
Horace
Dorothy Parker
Vita Sackville West
Jane Austen
Vladimir Nabokov
Oscar Wilde
James Thurber
Noel Coward
Edith Wharton
Martin Cruz Smith BR>William Shakespeare
Virginia WooIf
Muriel Spark
F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Steinbeck
and many others
By party-goers and party-givers alike, this sparkling volume will be imbibed as joyously as vintage Champagne.
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About the Author
Susanna Johnston is the editor of "Parties: A Literary Companion" and the author of "Collecting: The Passionate Pastime" and "The Picnic Papers,"
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- PublisherDiane Pub Co
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0756783542
- ISBN 13 9780756783549
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages286
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