Alpine giggle week: how Dorothy Parker set out to write the great American novel and ended up in a TB colony atop an Alpine Peak
✍ Scribed by Dorothy Parker
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 398 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0698153774
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
A little known, rediscovered letter: an SOS from a woman trapped on a Swiss mountaintop in a TB colony with no idea how to escape --that woman being Dorothy Parker.
"Kids, I have started one thousand (1,000) letters to you, but they all through no will of mine got to sounding so gloomy and I was afraid of boring the combined tripe out of you, so I never sent them." Thus starts a little-known and until now unpublished letter by Dorothy Parker from a Swiss mountaintop. Parker wrote the letter in September 1930 to Viking publishers Harold Guinzburg and George Oppenheimer--she went to France to write a novel for them and wound up in a TB colony in Switzerland. Parker refers to the letter as a "novelette," yet there is nothing fictional about it. More accurately, the biting composition reads like a gossipy diary entry, typed out on Parker's beautiful new German typewriter. She namedrops notable figures like Ernest Hemingway and Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald...