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Publisher's summary
Dorothy Parker's quips and light verse have embedded themselves in the American literary landscape, but it was her prose that proved her star and demonstrated her talent as extending far beyond her time. In her fiction, she not only brought to life the urban milieu that was her bailiwick, but lay bare the uncertainties of ordinary people living ordinary lives, all told in her unflinching and deeply personal voice.
In these selected stories, read for you by Elaine Stritch, we have the chance to draw upon her insight into the social and emotional realities of human nature. The following stories are featured in this audiobook collection:
- "Big Blonde"
- "Too Bad"
- "The Song of the Shirt"
- "Mr. Durant"
- "From the Diary of a New York Lady"
- "The Standard of Living"
- "The Garter"
Critic reviews
"There have been other recordings of Parker's stories, several very good. But this is a particularly happy pairing of subject and reader. Stritch's famous whiskey tenor does the stories - with their glossy exteriors and yearning hearts - justice. Sympathy is always lurking in her voice, especially for Parker's female characters, but you can't stop and wallow; there's the next quip to get to, the next coping mechanism. A life in musical comedy brings timing and acidity to the brittle society antics of "Too Bad" or "The Standard of Living". And there is a poignancy, too, to the deep and rueful knowledge of the ravages of alcohol laid so bare in "Big Blonde". In case you're worried Stritch's personality overpowers Parker’s material, don't be; she's too good an actor for that." (The New York Times Book Review)
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- Rodney Wines
- 11-26-18
Very good/very depressing
For hours of uninterrupted reading enjoyment I recommend googling "Dorothy Parker Quotes". I expected more of the same from this recording, but that's not what I got. To be honest, if I'd known what I was getting I never would've bought the recording. I gave it 5 stars because of of the very high quality of the prose and the performance.
I'd never read any of Parker's prose before, so I had no idea how dark and melancholy some of it can be. She describes her characters with all the precision and attention to detail of an Ansel Adams photograph. If those characters are self-centered, evil, or just very unhappy, the result can be very depressing (for me anyhow).
If you want to listen to the words of a master storyteller read with exceptional skill, I very highly recommend this recording. If your temperament is similar to mine, however, I recommend doing so on a bright sunshiny day when the birds are singing and the children are playing and the next election is years away. If you choose to listen on a cold and rainy winter night, I suggest that you make sure that the pills and firearms are safely locked away, and that you're nowhere near any upper story windows.
I am glad to mention that the last story was more what I had expected. It is about the disaster of a broken garter at a party, and is very funny.
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- MFM
- 11-17-18
Two great talents
A moving reading of some of Parker's best by the perfect voice of a woman who understands Parker and her characters and who had lived some of their pains. Brilliant rendition unavailable until this digital remake of a long-treasured audio cassette.
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- Gary & Jay
- 12-21-18
A Delight!
Want to know what's really going on in everybody's head (including yours)? Just ask Dotty.
And if it's Elaine delivering the message, you'll learn even more. The best part is feeling the kind heart behind the sardonic prose, and understanding the deep concern for people under the laughs.
One of the best times we've ever had with an audiobook!
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- Barbara
- 12-16-18
Not the stories I’d have chosen, but good
Kind of a random selection of Parker’s stories. Some were a little melancholy, some cruel, and only one funny. Elaine Stritch’s narration was spot on.
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- HissyFit
- 12-26-18
Concentrates on Trival Minds
While Parker is a writer with acute observation skills, these stories focused on women whose thoughts were utterly insipid. The only way I knew one story was over and another had started was when the reader said "Chapter 1"
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- Ikini
- 12-24-18
ugh
I thought Dorothy Parker was supposed to be witty and funny. Maybe it was the performance, maybe the content, but I did not find it so. Dreary stories about dreary people behaving stupidly.
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- Lynn
- 01-20-19
Where has Dorothy Parker been all my life?
I generally shun short stories, but for some whimsical reason I purchased this volume. OMG. The dry wit! In terms of wit and ability to capture characters, she reminds me a bit of Eudora Welty, though very different setting and much less sympathy. And the narrator takes the cake. Period perfect. I felt as though my girlfriend Parker was telling me her gossip when I stopped into her apartment for a lunch of bourbon and water.
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- The tattooless lady
- 12-10-18
So Great!
I really enjoyed how real each character is, her writing style is beautiful. I enjoyed each story.
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- Mary C
- 01-07-19
Perfect stories from a depressed alcoholic
These stories reflect the bleak, often limited lives of single women and housewives. The men are almost all rogues with no concern for the women in their lives. There's little of Parker's noted humor and wit unless you consider tragic irony to be wit. It's only 3 hours so not great value for the money.
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- Catherine
- 01-16-19
Well done but so short??
A good collection as far as it goes. Well read. Displays the wry humour for which Ms. Parker is famous. Elaine Stritch has a rich gravelly voice that compliments Parker's (sometimes painful) irony. Where's the rest?
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Author, poet, screenwriter, and outstanding member of the legendary Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker was known for her quick wit, keen observations, and remarkable insight into the human condition. Regarded as brilliant, but known to be an alcoholic and often depressed, Parker’s work pushes all buttons at once: humor, anger, love, pity, and everything in between...she pulled no punches, writing with pure, unadulterated passion; her work is timeless and as pertinent to today’s society as it was to that of the time she wrote.
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These are wonderful
- By RueRue on 04-17-19
By: Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
- By: Marion Meade
- Narrated by: Grace Conlin
- Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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She was known for her outrageous one-liners, her ruthless theater criticism, her clever verses and bittersweet stories. But there was another side to Dorothy Parker, a private life set on a course of destruction.
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heartbreaking and hilarious
- By h and l on 01-05-10
By: Marion Meade
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Men I'm Not Married To
- By: Dorothy Parker
- Narrated by: Sara Nichols
- Length: 25 mins
- Unabridged
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A collection of observations about the male of the species from one of the 20th century's most celebrated and renowned humorists, Men I'm Not Married To is a series of descriptions of nine men, all of whom Parker managed to avoid accompanying down the aisle. Some longer, some very short, each of these descriptions shows Parker's full range of wit, sardonic humor, and wry cynicism.
By: Dorothy Parker
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The Fran Lebowitz Reader
- By: Fran Lebowitz
- Narrated by: Fran Lebowitz
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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In "elegant, finely honed prose" (The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life—its fads, trends, crazes, morals, and fashions. By turns ironic, facetious, deadpan, sarcastic, wry, wisecracking, and waggish, Fran Lebowitz is always wickedly entertaining.
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Wonderful in her own voice.
- By Sue C on 11-07-12
By: Fran Lebowitz
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Tell Me How It Ends
- An Essay in 40 Questions
- By: Valeria Luiselli
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Structured around the 40 questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin American children facing deportation, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman's essay of the same name) humanizes these young migrants and highlights the contradiction between the idea of America as a fiction for immigrants and the reality of racism and fear - both here and back home.
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educate yourself
- By keji kujjo on 10-04-18
By: Valeria Luiselli
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