Contemporary Review, December 1st, 1993
A true appreciation of Dorothy Parker's worth as a person of penetrating and insightful humor, both in her speech and in her literature, will result only when one transcends the derogatory references to her life that abound in biographies of this wonderful American writer. The occasion of her centenary provides an opportunity to see her as the outrageously funny conversationalist she was. 'The Collected Dorothy Parker' in the Penguin Modern Classics Series offers glimpses of her humor.
TRANSATLANTIC centenaries are not much observed, or even noticed on this side, and it comes as something of ...
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