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A
Time to Be Born |
Set against a marvelously atmospheric backdrop of the city
in the months just before America's entry into World War II,
Powell here offers a scathing and hilarious study of cynical
New Yorkers stalking each other for selfish ends. At the center
of the story are a wealthy, self-involved newspaper... Read
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The
Wicked Pavilion |
The "wicked pavilion" is the Cafe 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 and
to puncture one another's reputations. Gore Vidal is one of
many who considers The Wicked Pavilion to be Powell's best...
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My
Home Is Far Away |
Dawn Powell was in the midst of writing one of her finest
satires, A
Time to Be Born, when she contracted a fever that
brought childhood memories back so vividly that she stopped
her novel and began scrawling reminiscences that were later
collected in My Home Is Far Away. Although not true...
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Selected
Letters of Dawn Powell : 1913-1965 |
The great prose comedian Flann O'Brien called humor "the
handmaid of sorrow and fear." Perhaps O'Brien, who had more
than the customary quotient of misery in his own existence,
was exaggerating--but his insight is certainly borne out by
the art and life of Dawn Powell. Seldom has a writer's...
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