Doris Dorrie, Author Alfred A. Knopf $16.95 (177p) ISBN 978-0-394-57799-9
A German film director known for mordant feminist comedies, Dorrie is also a dazzling writer with a distinctive voice, as confirmed by these four stories. In ``Men'' (the basis for her movie of the same title), an advertising executive who discovers
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Doris Dorrie, Author, Doris Dobbie, Author, Skip Skwarek, Editor Dial Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2388-7
In this whimsical but too-chatty debut from a German duo, ""a freezing cold day"" transforms into ""a glittery gold day"" with the aid of some glitzy attire. On a frosty morning, Lottie is reluctant to get ready for kindergarten. She resists her...
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Doris Dorrie, Author, John Brownjohn, Translator , trans. from the German by John Brownjohn. Bloomsbury $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-58234-151-4
Scathingly funny and surprisingly warm at heart, this midlife-crisis satire by German film writer/director Dörrie (What Do You Want from Me?) skims the surface of contemporary life and comes up with a story rich in comedy and insight. German...
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Doris Dorrie, Author, Erroll McDonald, Editor Vintage Books USA $9 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-72992-1
Among these four mordant feminist comedies are ``Men,'' in which an ad exec whose wife is having an affair with a hippie disguises himself and moves in with his rival, and ``Paradise,'' a menage a trois tale of a husband obsessed with his wife's...
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Doris Dorrie, Author, Carol Brown Janeway, Editor, John Woods, Translator Alfred A. Knopf $19 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-40092-9
German filmmaker Dorrie, author of Love, Pain and the Whole Damned Thing , is above all a detached observer of people. Adopting a nearly journalistic style, she uses these 16 stories to examine a sideshow assortment of displaced people who long for...
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