num_pages: 12
description: [This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.][Read by Grace Conlin]She was known for her outrageous one-liners, her ruthless theater criticism, her clever verses and bittersweet stories. But there was another side of Dorothy a private life set on a course of destruction through two divorces, a string of painful affairs, a lifelong problem with alcohol, and several suicide attempts.In this lively, absorbing biography, Marion Meade illuminates both sides of the fascinating her dark days, as well as her days in the sun at the Algonquin Round Table with Robert Benchley, George Kaufman, and Harold Ross and in Hollywood with S. J. Perelman, William Faulkner, and Lillian Hellman.
language: English
title: Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
titlecomplete: Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
characters: Dorothy Parker
genres: History, Feminism, Womens, Memoir, New York, Biography Memoir, Poetry, Writing, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 4161
publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.