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Author : Dawn Powell
Publisher : Library of America Dawn Powell
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015053391986
Collects four novels written by the twentieth-century American novelist, including "My Home is Far Away," "The Locusts Have No King," "The Wicked Pavilion," and "The Golden Hour."
Author : Dawn Powell
Publisher : Steerforth
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781581952452
My Home is Far Away is the most precisely autobiographical of Powell’s fifteen novels. In this family chronicle set in early twentieth century Ohio, young Marcia Willard’s family struggles to keep up with the rapidly changing times, and Marcia endures disillusionment, cruelty, and betrayal to forge a survivor’s sense of independence. John Updike has compared Powell with Theodore Dreiser, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, “and those other Midwestern writers who felt something epic in the national shift from rural to urban, from provincial sequestration to metropolitan liberation.” By 1941, when Powell set to work on My Home Is Far Away, she was better known for the smart, boozy, bawdy, hilarious send-ups of Manhattan high and low life. She had begun to attain a reputation for high sophistication and nothing could be less “sophisticated” – in the glittering, all-knowing, furiously present-tense, big-city manner Powell had perfected – than My Home Is Far Away. This was the month of cherries and peaches, of green apples beyond the grape arbor, of little dandelion ghosts in the grass, of sour grass and four-leaf clovers, of still dry heat holding the smell of nasturtiums and dying lilacs. This was the best month of all and the best day. It was not birthday, Easter, Christmas, or picnic, but all these things and something else, something wonderful, something utterly unknown. The two little girls in embroidered white Sunday dresses knew no way to express their secret joy but by whirling each other dizzily over the lawn crying, “We’re moving, we’re moving! We’re moving to London Junction!” My Home Is Far Away is one of the very few examples of a book written for adults, with an adult command of the language, that maintains the vantage point of a hungry, serious child throughout. It might be likened to a memoir that has been penned not with the usual tranquility of distance but rather with the sense that everything happening to the characters is happening right now, without any promise of eventual escape, without any assurance that childhood, too, shall pass away. My Home is Far Away had been out of print for sixty years when Steerforth reissued it in 1995. It received immediate widespread acclaim, and was featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, where Terry Teachout called it “one of the permanent masterpieces of childhood, comparable with David Copperfield, What Maisie Knew and the early reminiscences of Colette,” and where he proclaimed Powell to be “one of this country’s least recognized great novelists.”
Author : Tim Page
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0805063013
In Dawn Powell: A Biography, Tim Page explores the fascinating ironies and sad complexities of Powell's life and work. Gore Vidal once referred to her as our best comic novelist, deserving to be as widely read as Hemingway and Fitzgerald. This biography is a celebration of her triumphant rise from the ashes of near oblivion to her establishment among the giants of twentieth-century American literature. Dawn Powell lived in New York City for forty-seven years but always maintained the perspective of a "permanent visitor." She distilled this into her many poems, stories, articles, plays, and her dizzying and inventive novels.
Author : Dawn Powell
Publisher : Steerforth
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781581952476
This scathing “comedy of manners” set in the 1940s “steers us through the lives of women who come to New York . . . for love, money, opportunity, and a good time” (New York Times). At the center of this 1942 novel are a wealthy, self-involved newspaper publisher and his scheming, novelist wife, Amanda Keeler—who ensnares Ohioan Vicky Haven in her social and romantic manipulations. Author Dawn Powell always denied Amanda Keeler was based upon the real-life Clare Boothe Luce until years later when she discovered a memo she’d written to herself in 1939 that said, “Why not do a novel on Clare Luce?” Which prompted Powell to write in her diary, “Who can I believe? Me or myself?” Set against an atmospheric backdrop of New York City in the months just before America’ s entry into World War II, A Time of Be Born is a scathing and hilarious study of cynical New Yorkers stalking each other for various selfish ends.
Author : Dawn Powell
Publisher : Steerforth
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781581952483
Dennis Orphen, in writing a novel, has stolen the life story of his friend, Effie Callingham, the former wife of a famous, Hemingway-like novelist, Andrew Callingham. Orphen’s betrayal is not the only one, nor the worst one, in this hilarious satire of the New York literary scene. (Powell personally considered this to be her best New York novel.) Powell takes revenge here on all publishers, and her baffoonish MacTweed is a comic invention worthy of Dickens. And as always in Powell’s New York novels, the city itself becomes a central character: “On the glittering black pavement legs hurried by with umbrella tops, taxis skidded along the curb, their wheels swishing through the puddles, raindrops bounced like dice in the gutter.” Powell’s famous wit was never sharper than here, but Turn, Magic Wheel is also one of the most poignant and heart-wrenching of her novels.
Author : Dawn Powell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015031757191
Deft, funny, knowing, compassionate and poetic. --John Updike in the New Yorker
Author : Dawn Powell
Publisher : Steerforth
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781581952490
The “Wicked Pavilion” of the title is the Café Julien, where everybody who is anybody goes to recover from failed love affairs and to pursue new ones, to cadge money, to hatch plots, and to puncture one another’s reputation. Dennis Orphen, the writer from Dawn Powell’s Turn, Magic Wheel, makes an appearance here, as does Andy Callingham, Powell’s thinly disguised Ernest Hemingway. The climax of this mercilessly funny novel comes with a party which, remarked Gore Vidal, “resembles Proust’s last roundup,” and where one of the partygoers observes, “There are some people here who have been dead twenty years.” "For decades Dawn Powell was always just on the verge of ceasing to be a cult and becoming a major religion." -- Gore Vidal
Author : Margaret Carlson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0684808900
Margaret Carlson presents her columns and views on motherhood, feminism, and politics, and includes how she became Time magazine's first woman columnist.
Author : Dawn Powell
Publisher : Steerforth
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106015487983
Everyone in Dawn Powell's New York satire Angels on Toast is on the make: Lou Donovan, the entrepeneur who ricochets frantically between his well-connected current wife, his disreputable ex, and his dangerously greedy mistress; Trina Kameray, the exotic adventuress whose job title is as phony as her accent; T.V. Truesdale, the man with the aristocratic manner, the fourteen-dollar suit, and the hyperactive eye for the main chance. A dizzyingly fast-paced and deliriously entertaining novel.
Author : Dawn Powell
Publisher : Steerforth
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781581952469
NO ONE HAS SATIRIZED New York society quite like Dawn Powell, and in this classic novel she turns her sharp eye and stinging wit on the literary world, and "identifies every sort of publishing type with the patience of a pathologist removing organs for inspection." Frederick Olliver, an obscure historian and writer, is having an affair with the restively married, beautiful, and hugely successful playwright, Lyle Gaynor. Powell sets a see-saw in motion when Olliver is swept up by the tasteless publishing tycoon, Tyson Bricker, and his new book makes its way onto to the bestseller lists just as Lyle's Broadway career is coming apart.
Author : Dawn Powell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN : UCAL:$B104388
Eighteen short stories are mostly about disillusioned or defeated people.
Author : Patricia E. Palermo
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780804040686
Dawn Powell was a gifted satirist who moved in the same circles as Dorothy Parker, Ernest Hemingway, renowned editor Maxwell Perkins, and other midcentury New York luminaries. Her many novels are typically divided into two groups: those dealing with her native Ohio and those set in New York. “From the moment she left behind her harsh upbringing in Mount Gilead, Ohio, and arrived in Manhattan, in 1918, she dove into city life with an outlander’s anthropological zeal,” reads a recent New Yorker piece about Powell, and it is those New York novels that built her reputation for scouring wit and social observation. In this critical biography and study of the New York novels, Patricia Palermo reminds us how Powell earned a place in the national literary establishment and East Coast social scene. Though Powell’s prolific output has been out of print for most of the past few decades, a revival is under way: the Library of America, touting her as a “rediscovered American comic genius,” released her collected novels, and in 2015 she was posthumously inducted into the New York State Writer’s Hall of Fame. Engaging and erudite, The Message of the City fills a major gap in in the story of a long-overlooked literary great. Palermo places Powell in cultural and historical context and, drawing on her diaries, reveals the real-life inspirations for some of her most delicious satire.
Author : Paul Joseph
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1562398423
A biography of the Orlando Magic's point-guard superstar whose versatility on the court enables his team to be one of the best in the NBA.
Author : Michael L. Banner
Publisher : Tate Publishing & Enterprises
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1621472558
Big men, small men, smart men, strong men, brave men, kind men, rich men, poor men: they can all be different. They can all be real men, and it seems like they all were not all that long ago. The men of the greatest generation knew what fortitude meant. They knew what it took to win a war, to win someone's heart. They knew the meaning of words like husband and father and respect. Real men are still around today, but you have to know what to look for. This book makes it clear who they are. Let this be your manual. Michael Banner will give you a personal tour through the world of our fathers and grandfathers and show how the strength these men had hasn't faded, and how we need it now more than ever.
Author : Dawn Powell
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998-08-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781883642259
Dawn Powell had a brilliant mind and a keen wit and her humor was never at a finer pitch than in her diaries. And yet her story is a poignant one – a son emotionally and mentally impaired, a household of too much alcohol and never enough money, and an artistic career that, if not a failure, fell far short of the success she craved. All is recorded here – along with working sketches for her novels, and often revealing portraits of her many friends (a literary who’s who of her period) – in her always unique style and without self-delusion. Powell's remarkable Diaries will stand as one of her finest literary achievements.