Gail Crowther Dorothy Parker in Hollywood review, recensie en informatie boek over het leven van de Amerikaanse schrijfster in Hollywood. Op 15 oktober 2024 verschijnt bij Gallery Books het boek over Dorothy Parker in Hollywood. Het is geschreven door uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Gail Crowther. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.
Gail Crowther Dorothy Parker in Hollywood review, recensie en informatie
- “A welcome effort to expand our view of the writer’s career. The film industry’s influence on Parker, as well as hers on it, is a juicy subject that’s ripe for evaluation in our own screen-obsessed age.” (Wall Street Journal)
- “Crowther thoughtfully considers Parker’s ambivalence about Hollywood through her poetry and fiction, failed romances, miscarriages, suicide attempts and activism. Parker was often abrasive, but Crowther considers Parker empathetically, as a sui generis who resisted becoming a cog in the filmmaking machinery.” (Los Angeles Times)
Dorothy Parker in Hollywood
- Auteur: Gail Crowther (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: biografie
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Gallery Books
- Verschijnt: 15 oktober 2024
- Omvang: 304 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van het boek over de Amerikaanse schrijfster Dorothy Parker
An expansive and illuminating study of legendary writer Dorothy Parker’s life and legacy in Hollywood.
The glamorous extravagances and devasting lows of her time in Hollywood are revealed as never before in this fresh new biography of Dorothy Parker—from leaving New York City to work on numerous classic screenplays such as the 1937 A Star Is Born to the devastation of alcoholism, a miscarriage, and her husband’s suicide. Parker’s involvement with anti-fascist and anti-racist groups, which led to her ultimate blacklisting, and her early work in the civil rights movement that inspired her to leave her entire estate to the NAACP are also explored as never before.
Just as she did with her “deliriously fast-paced and erudite” (Library Journal) dual biography of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath, Gail Crowther brings Parker back to life on the page in all her wit, grit, and brilliance.
Gail Crowther is a freelance writer, researcher, and academic. She is the author of The Haunted Reader and Sylvia Plath and the coauthor of Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year’s Turning and These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath. Gail divides her time between the North of England with her dog, George, and London. As a feminist vegan she engages with politics concerning gender, power, and animal rights.