Big Blonde and Other Stories by Dorothy Parker

Big Blonde and Other Stories by Dorothy Parker

This is a collection of true short stories about a city girl from Detroit who moved to the country in Tennessee. There she began accumulating farm animals including goats, horses and dogs, and with them came experiences and insights that were journaled. A photo collection also accompanies the stories. Two goals are hopefully accomplished when reading the vignettes: first, knowledge is gained about various farm animals and the care they require. Second, personal spiritual life lessons are learned and shared relating to the experiences. It is the hope of the writer that urban readers will come away with new insights into country living. Rural readers will relate to the stories and their own experiences. And any reader would have spiritual reflections on how God uses any everyday situation to reveal Himself to us and bring us closer to Him.

Dorothy Parker was born in West End, New Jersey, in 1893 and grew up in New York, attending a Catholic convent school and Miss Dana's School in Morristown, New Jersey. In 1916 she sold some of her poetry to the editor of Vogue, and was subsequently given an editorial position on the magazine, writing captions for fashion photographs and drawings. She then became drama critic of Vanity Fair and the central figure of the celebrated Algonquin Round Table.

Famous for her spoken wit, she showed the same trenchant commentary in her book reviews for The New Yorker and Esquire and in her poems and sketches. Her collection of poems included Not So Deep as a Well and Enough Rope, which became a bestseller; and her collections of stories included Here Lies. She also collaborated with Elmer Rice on a play, Close Harmony and with Arnaud d'Usseau on the play the Ladies of the Corridor. She herself had two Broadway plays written about her and was portrayed as a character in a third. Her cynicism and the concentration of her judgements were famous and she has been closely associated with modern urbane humour.

Her first husband was Edwin Pond Parker II, and although they were divorced some years later, she continued to use his name, which she much preferred to her own of Rothschild. Her second husband was an actor-writer Alan Campbell. They went to Hollywood as a writing team and went through a tempestuous marriage until his death in 1963, when Dorothy Parker returned to New York. She died in 1967.

Marion Meade is the author of Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? and Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties. She has also written biographies of Woody Allen, Buster Keaton, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Victoria Woodhull, and Madame Blavatsky, as well as two novels about medieval France.

Seth is an illustrator whose work has been featured in such publications as the Washington Post, Details, Spin, and the New York Times. He is best known for his continuing comic book series Palooka-Ville.

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ISBN 13	9780146000768
ISBN 10	0146000765
Title	Big Blonde and Other Stories
Author	Dorothy Parker
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	1995-09-01
Number of pages	64
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