Laments for the Living

Name: Laments for the Living
Author: Dorothy Parker

by Dorothy Parker

Collection of short stories portraying people in decline and loss

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Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker was the sharpest wit of the Algonquin Round Table, whose short stories combine comic surfaces with devastating emotional undertows. Her compressed, ironic fiction about modern women remains bracingly contemporary.

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