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.

Ea a simtit o solidaritate confortabila cu marea companie a mortilor voluntari. „Intelepciune si sfasietoare, aceste povesti despre femei de la marginea legendei inteligenta Dorothy Parker arata intunericul de sub suprafata epocii jazzului. Penguin Modern: cincizeci de carti noi care sarbatoresc spiritul de pionierat al emblematicului serial Penguin Modern Classics, fiecare oferind un hit concentrat al aromei sale contemporane, internationale.