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During the early years of her career, while struggling to "keep body and soul apart" (as she ruefully put it later), Dorothy Parker wrote more than three hundred poems and verses for a variety of popular magazines and newspapers. Between 1926 and 1933 she collected most of these pieces in three volumes of poetry: "Enough Rope, Sunset Gun, " and "Death and Taxes." The remaining poems and verses from America's most renowned cynic make up this volume. Eclectic and exuberant, these 122 once-forgotten gems display Parker's distinctive wit, irony, and precision, as she dissects early-twentieth-century American urban life and gleefully skewers a rich array of targets that range from personal foible to popular culture. With an authoritative, immensely entertaining, and critically acclaimed introduction by Stuart Y. Silverstein, "Not Much Fun" is an essential addition to the Dorothy Parker library and a welcome gift to her many admirers and devoted fans.

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• Full title: Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker
• Author: Stuart Y. Silverstein, Stuart Y. Silverstein
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9781439143179
• ISBN: 143914317X
• ID: 12113106
• Publisher: SCRIBNER MACMILLAN
• Weight: 211 g
• Dimensions: 202 × 127 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: October 2009

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