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Just a Little One
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In Just a Little One, Dorothy Parker distills a lifetime of wit, despair, and defiance into a single, unsteady cocktail-hour monologue. A woman, armed with charm and self-deprecation, insists she's "not really drinking", as her voice wavers between irony and heartbreak. Beneath the sparkling surface of...
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Description
In Just a Little One, Dorothy Parker distills a lifetime of wit, despair, and defiance into a single, unsteady cocktail-hour monologue. A woman, armed with charm and self-deprecation, insists she's "not really drinking", as her voice wavers between irony and heartbreak. Beneath the sparkling surface of repartee, Parker exposes the loneliness of modern urban life and the tragicomedy of self-awareness. This miniature masterpiece captures her gift for compressing a social world-its manners, hypocrisies, and private humiliations-into a single, devastating confession.
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Book Details
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ISBN: 9781967751945
Publisher: ERIS
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 May 2026
Country: United States
Imprint: ERIS
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 109.0mm
Height: 193.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 12
About the Author
Dorothy Parker was an American writer, poet, and critic known for her razor-sharp wit and unsparing emotional intelligence. A founding member of the Algonquin Round Table, she became one of the defining voices of Jazz Age satire and remains among the centuryβs most quoted and beloved humorists.
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