Novels, 1944-1962
Powell, Dawn
Novels, 1944-1962 / Dawn Powell - New York : Library of America , c2001 - 969 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 959-969).
My home is far away -- The locusts have no king -- The wicked pavilion -- The golden spur.
For decades after her death, Dawn Powell's work was out of print, cherished by a small band of admirers. Only recently has there been renewed awareness of the novelist who was such a vital presence in literary Greenwich Village from the 1920s to the 1960s. Dawn Powell was the tirelessly observant chronicler of two very different worlds: the small-town Ohio of her childhood and the sophisticated Manhattan to which she gravitated. If her Ohio novels are more melancholy and compassionate in their depiction of often frustrated lives, her Manhattan novels, with their cast of writers, show people, businessmen, and hustling hangers-on, are more exuberant and incisive. But all show rich characterization and a flair for the gist of social complexities. A playful satirist, an unsentimental observer of failed hopes and misguided longings, Dawn Powell is a literary rediscovery of rare importance.
English.
9781931082020
New York (N.Y.)----Fiction
Ohio---Fiction
PS3531.O936 / A6 2001b
FIC POW
Novels, 1944-1962 / Dawn Powell - New York : Library of America , c2001 - 969 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 959-969).
My home is far away -- The locusts have no king -- The wicked pavilion -- The golden spur.
For decades after her death, Dawn Powell's work was out of print, cherished by a small band of admirers. Only recently has there been renewed awareness of the novelist who was such a vital presence in literary Greenwich Village from the 1920s to the 1960s. Dawn Powell was the tirelessly observant chronicler of two very different worlds: the small-town Ohio of her childhood and the sophisticated Manhattan to which she gravitated. If her Ohio novels are more melancholy and compassionate in their depiction of often frustrated lives, her Manhattan novels, with their cast of writers, show people, businessmen, and hustling hangers-on, are more exuberant and incisive. But all show rich characterization and a flair for the gist of social complexities. A playful satirist, an unsentimental observer of failed hopes and misguided longings, Dawn Powell is a literary rediscovery of rare importance.
English.
9781931082020
New York (N.Y.)----Fiction
Ohio---Fiction
PS3531.O936 / A6 2001b
FIC POW
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