Ellen Meister's Dorothy Parker Drank Here PDF

By Ellen Meister

ISBN-10: 0698137833

ISBN-13: 9780698137837

The acid-tongued Dorothy Parker is again and haunting the halls of the Algonquin along with her piercing wit, audacious voice, and all of sudden soft wisdom.

Heavenly peace? No, thanks. Dorothy Parker could fairly wander the well-known halls of the Algonquin resort, drink in hand, looking for anyone, somebody, who will continue her corporation in this aspect of eternity.

After 40 years she thinks she's discovered the precise candidate in Ted Shriver, a super literary voice of the Nineteen Seventies, silenced early in a promising occupation through a devastating plagiarism scandal. Now a prickly recluse, he hides away within the outdated lodge slowly death of melanoma, which he refuses to regard. If she will simply persuade him to signal the notorious guestbook of Percy Coates, Dorothy Parker may be able to convince the jaded author to spurn the white mild along with her. Ted, notwithstanding, will be the single individual residing or useless who's extra obdurate than Parker, and he rejects her notion outright.

When a tender, bold television manufacturer, Norah Wolfe, enters the resort looking for Ted Shriver, Parker sees one other chance to get what she desires. as a substitute, she and Norah be capable to discover such startling secrets and techniques approximately Ted's earlier that the longer term adjustments for all of them.

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And was well pleased by it. 17 Roland . . Sasha . . Peter . . Thomas. Now there is only one more we must speak of, isn't there? Now there is only the shadowy fifth. The time has come to speak of Flagg, as dreadful as that may be. Sometimes the people of Delain called him Flagg the Hooded; sometimes simply the dark man-for, in spite of his white corpse's face, he was a dark man indeed. They called him well preserved, but they used the term in a way that was uneasy rather than complimentary.

Thomas gasped. "Oh, that's nothing! Look over here! " He showed Thomas a pile of booty from the encounter with the Anduan pirates some twelve years ago. The Delain Treasury was rich, the few treasure-room clerks old, and this particular heap hadn't been sorted yet. Thomas gasped at heavy swords with jeweled hilts, daggers with blades that had been crusted with serrated diamonds so they would cut deeper, heavy killballs made of rhodochrosite. " Thomas asked in an awed voice. "It all belongs to your father," Flagg replied, although Thomas had actually been correct.

Just as the magician had promised. By the light of Flagg's magic finger-flare, he could also see they were in a secret passage which was about twenty-five feet long. Walls, floor, and ceiling were covered with ironwood boards. He couldn't see the far end very well, but it looked perfectly blank. He could still hear the muffled barking of the dogs. "When I said be quick, I meant it," Flagg said. He bent over Thomas, a vague, looming shadow that was, in this darkness, rather batlike itself. Thomas drew back a step, uneasily.

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