The Ladies of the Corridor: A Play
by Dorothy Parker, Arnaud d'Usseau
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None
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Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
NY: Viking Press, 1954. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, two-tone blue cloth covers, 120 pages. The blackly comic play about the oppressed lives of women in 1950s New York. One of literature’s leading humorists, Dorothy Parker drew from the dark side of her imagination to pen The Ladies of the Corridor, a searing drama about women living on their own in a New York residence hotel. Loosely based on Parker’s life, and co-written with famed Hollywood playwright Arnaud d’Usseau, The Ladies of the Corridor exposes the limitations of a woman’s life in a drama teeming with Parker’s signature wit. This copy INSCRIBED BY FRANCES STARR on the front fly leaf who had a leading role in the play as Mrs. Nichols. Record # 383649
Synopsis
The blackly comic play about the oppressed lives of women in 1950s New York One of Literature ?s leading humorists, Dorothy Parker drew from the dark side of her imagination to pen The Ladies of the Corridor , a searing drama about women living on their own in a New York residence hotel. Loosely based on Parker?s life, and co-written with famed Hollywood playwright Arnaud d?Usseau, The Ladies of the Corridor exposes the limitations of a woman?s life in a drama teeming with Parker?s signature wit.
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- Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 383649
- Title
- The Ladies of the Corridor: A Play
- Author
- Dorothy Parker, Arnaud d'Usseau
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- Theater, Plays, , .
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