The Custard Heart
'She felt a cozy solidarity with the big company of the voluntary dead.'
Wise-cracking and heartbreaking, these tales of women on the edge by the legendary wit Dorothy Parker show the darkness beneath the surface of the Jazz Age.
Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
- Author
- Dorothy Parker
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 64
- Series
- Penguin Modern
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 978-0-241-33958-9
- EAN
- 9780241339589
- Release date
- 2018
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