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Men I'm Not Married To
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781515444886
Publisher: Wilder Pubn
Published: Mar 9 2020
Pages: 30
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.07 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Men I'm Not Married To collects Dorothy Parker's sharp, unsparing early portraits of love, disappointment, and modern womanhood in the Jazz Age.
In these witty and incisive stories, Parker turns her attention to the fragile rituals of courtship, the illusions of romance, and the quiet devastations of marriage narrowly avoided. With precision and restraint, she captures the inner lives of women negotiating expectation, desire, and independence in a rapidly changing society. Her humor is cool, her irony measured, and her emotional insight exacting.
Written at the height of the Roaring Twenties, these pieces reflect the sophistication and disillusionment of interwar American life. Parker's voice-civilized yet cutting-reveals both the comedy and the cost of romantic entanglement. Beneath the polished surfaces lies a steady examination of vulnerability, autonomy, and the social performance required of women in polite society.
This Wilder Publications edition presents Parker's work in a clean, carefully formatted volume intended for readers, libraries, and scholars seeking a durable presentation of a key twentieth-century literary voice.
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