Parker: Selected Stories

by Dorothy Parker Narrated by Elaine Stritch

Overview

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

Editorial Reviews

NOV/DEC 96 - AudioFile

Elaine Stritch--TV’s first Alice Cramden; show-stopping, hard-living Manhattanite in Sondheim’s company; Emmy winner; droll BBC comedienne--seems an ideal interpreter of these wry, witty Parker tales. Indeed, one hears understanding, relish, irony and drama in her distinctive whiskey voice. She lacks the light touch and impeccable timing of Shirley Booth’s classic Parker recordings. Booth emphasized humor; Stritch, the poignance underlying the author’s veneer of glib urbanity. Y.R. ©AudioFile, Portland, Maine

NOV/DEC 96 - AudioFile

Elaine Stritch--TV’s first Alice Cramden; show-stopping, hard-living Manhattanite in Sondheim’s company; Emmy winner; droll BBC comedienne--seems an ideal interpreter of these wry, witty Parker tales. Indeed, one hears understanding, relish, irony and drama in her distinctive whiskey voice. She lacks the light touch and impeccable timing of Shirley Booth’s classic Parker recordings. Booth emphasized humor; Stritch, the poignance underlying the author’s veneer of glib urbanity. Y.R. ©AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169470710
Publisher:	Penguin Random House
Publication date:	08/21/2018
Edition description:	Unabridged
Sales rank:	925,169

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