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Overview
This revised and updated study reviews Dorothy Parker's life, incorporating many facts recorded for the first time and stressing her literary work, and updates the first full critical assessment of her writing. In doing both, Kinney traces the sources of and influences on her work and assesses her final achievement to demonstrate her significant and unique contribution to American literature.Synopsis
This revised and updated study reviews Dorothy Parker's life, incorporating many facts recorded for the first time and stressing her literary work, and updates the first full critical assessment of her writing. In doing both, Kinney traces the sources of and influences on her work and assesses her final achievement to demonstrate her significant and unique contribution to American literature.
Booknews
A critical and appreciative reassessment of the work of Parker. The author briefly examines her life and the influences on her writings, and then discusses her works in more detail. He argues that her poetry, fiction, and criticism reveal language of a dialogic nature, and that what many have seen as monotonal and trivial in her work is in fact a compound of confused and complicated voicings. What is most evident in Parker's work, he contends, is the admission of irresolution, and not evidence of ignorance. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.