
The Dorothy Parker Audio Collection
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Narrated by:
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Christine Baranski
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Cynthia Nixon
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Alfre Woodard
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Shirley Booth
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By:
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Dorothy Parker
A variety of work from one of the most quotable of all 20th-century authors - the inimitable Dorothy Parker
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.
Among the gems included in this collection are her first published short story, "Such a Pretty Little Picture" and her O. Henry Award winner "Big Blonde", several other short stories, and, unlike other audio collections, some of her work, including her 1918 New Yorker piece on Tolstoy’s play Redemption and a 1927 Vanity Fair review of Emily Post’s Etiquette.
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Great Stories and Great Narrators!
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enjoyed the performance very theatrical
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Great narration of a timeless gal’s stories
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Snitty but interesting --- mostly
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loved it!
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Dated
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( although Shirley Booth, who reads the final 3 stories, is a bit over-the-top for my taste ). Best of the narrators is Christine Baranski.
These are wonderful
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Superbly witty writing and fabulous acting...
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Alfre Woodard is great, so is Christina Baranski. I find Shirley Booth's voice though to be really irritating to listen to, although I guess they chose her well because the narrators in those stories is (I think) meant to be kind of annoying/awful. Overall - there are much better versions, avoid this one.
Incomplete! Audible should give us a refund.
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Sadly, a Disappointment
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