Dorothy Parker Stories by Dorothy Parker
This edition includes all the stories from two previous collections Laments for the Living and After Such Pleasures. These 24 short stories are little peaks into the minds, lives and conversations of various jazz age denizens including aging party girls, cheating husbands, young lovers, horse-faced nurses and society ladies. Dorothy Parker deserves every bit of her reputation as a legendary wit - my favourite story in the collection is A Young Woman in Green Lace, in which the title character finds it difficult to readjust to New York after spending three weeks in Paris. These are just perfect, beautiful, clever, heartbreaking gems of stories.
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