# The Custard Heart

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- Book: [The Custard Heart](https://www.bookquiver.com/dorothy-parker/the-custard-heart) ([The Custard Heart.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/dorothy-parker/the-custard-heart.md))
- Authors: [Dorothy Parker](https://www.bookquiver.com/dorothy-parker)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4133-958-9
- Pages: 64
- Published: 2018-02-22
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'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.