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Dawn Powell
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 ... [... more]
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Writing New York: A Literary Anthology
From Amazon.com: Few cities on earth exert New York's pull on the literary imagination. There may be nothing like Paris in springtime, or a foggy day in London Town, but for sheer page volume, neither of these can rival the city that never sleeps. In [... more]
CDN$35.95
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The Wicked Pavilion
The Gift of Laughter: "Born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world is mad," remarks an anonymous character in "The Wicked Pavilion." That seems like a shard of a micro-self-portrait buried in the book. And can one ever [... more]
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Novels 1944 To 1962
Satiric, witty, sharply written and observant fiction: An author of immense popularity, Dawn Powell (1896-1965) wrote satiric, witty, sharply written and observant fiction that went out of print following her death. Then in the early 1990s a renewed [... more]
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Domestic Manners of the Americans
Well written commentary on American manners: This is an extremely entertaining commentary on American manners and well written. I agree, however, with Mrs. Trollope's son, Anthony, who commented that Mrs. Trollope is a keen observer but she understands [... more]
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The Locusts Have No King
When a "Real" New Yorker Is Just a Provincial: This is a fine, funny satire of New York literary life, and of the thousands of "real New Yorkers" who arrive from their small town or boring suburb and don't write that great novel, or [... more]
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Michael Sexton
FROM HER COLLEGE days onward, Dawn Powell dreamed of becoming a successful playwright. Indeed, over the course of four decades, she finished at least ten plays and was working on fashioning her novel The Golden Spur into a musical comedy during ... [... more]
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