Dawn Powell, Author Yarrow Press $9.94 (334p) ISBN 978-1-878274-06-9
Here's one to savor when you're feeling sour--a reissue of a 1942 novel teeming with egregiously opportunistic, social-climbing Manhattanites who see WW II as just one more cause to manipulate and who are appalled not by Hitler's barbarism but by...
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Dawn Powell, Author, Tim Page, Foreword by Zoland Books $14.95 (319p) ISBN 978-1-883642-43-3
Originally published in 1944, this reissue of Powell's fictionalized memoir of her Ohio girlhood lacks the hijinks, wit and clever plotting readers expect from her satirical New York novels like Angels on Toast. Yet the patient reader will find...
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Dawn Powell, Author, Tim Page, Introduction by Steerforth Press $28 (0p) ISBN 978-1-883642-16-7
Nostalgic as a vintage movie, though often marred by a plotless drift and trivializing portrayals of women and ethnic minorities, these two reissued novels and nine stories recall Powell (1897-1965) from critical oblivion. Powell creates evocative...
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Dawn Powell, Author, Tim Page, Editor Steerforth Press $32 (520p) ISBN 978-1-883642-08-2
A prolific novelist, short-story writer and playwright from the 1930s through the '50s, Powell, who was forgotten for 25 years after her death, is now, with the republication of her best work, and praise from Gore Vidal and John Updike, becoming a...
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Dawn Powell, Author, John Guare, Introduction by Yarrow Press $9.94 (286p) ISBN 978-1-878274-00-7
In the literary circles of Powell's (1897-1965) post-WW II Manhattan, ``art is a cigarette ad,'' money and insincerity go hand-in-hand, a friend is an opportunity to talk about oneself,stet comma for clarity/pk and the word identifying what lovers...
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Tim Page, Editor, Page, Author, Dawn Powell, Author Henry Holt & Company $30 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5364-7
A posthumous triumph, these letters are in many ways the perfect record of a difficult life lived with pluck, intelligence and verve. Powell (1896-1965) spent much of her youth shipped from relative to relative in small Ohio towns after the death of
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