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charlottebea 's review for:
The Portable Dorothy Parker
by Dorothy Parker
I’ve always admired Dorothy Parker. This collection of her writing is one I come back to in different moods and at different times. Her short stories are a mixed bag. The characters are vivid, written by a woman who spent her life observing people and bitingly remarking on what she saw. Most of them are bittersweet, and languid in some parts. Big Blonde is the one that stayed with me the most, the rest sort of blended together. Still, they’re well written.
The darker side of her life is reflected in her poetry. Her father abuse, her self-medication, her failed suicide and failed marriages. Her poetry echoes with that misery, and is mostly about death and abandonment, with lots of metaphor. I though it was beautiful, and love her poems ‘Condolence’ ‘A Certain Lady’ and ‘Tombstones in the Starlight’. Her reviews, I think, are where I can see the queen of the Algonquin round table reign. I wish I was alive when she was, so I could get the culture references a little better, but they still manage to make me laugh. I would love to hear her thoughts on the 2000s. 5/5. She is a beautiful writer with a sharp tongue and a deep thoughts behind that.
The darker side of her life is reflected in her poetry. Her father abuse, her self-medication, her failed suicide and failed marriages. Her poetry echoes with that misery, and is mostly about death and abandonment, with lots of metaphor. I though it was beautiful, and love her poems ‘Condolence’ ‘A Certain Lady’ and ‘Tombstones in the Starlight’. Her reviews, I think, are where I can see the queen of the Algonquin round table reign. I wish I was alive when she was, so I could get the culture references a little better, but they still manage to make me laugh. I would love to hear her thoughts on the 2000s. 5/5. She is a beautiful writer with a sharp tongue and a deep thoughts behind that.