Dawn Powell Books
The diaries of Dawn Powell, 1931-1965
By Dawn Powell
When Dawn Powell died thirty years ago she left a shelf of books and some impassioned fans. The novels, plays, and stories that won Powell a unique reputation in American letters are now joined by...
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The Diaries of Dawn Powell
By Dawn Powell Introduction By Tim Page
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,...
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Come back to Sorrento
By Dawn Powell
Dawn Powell turns her attention to those certain rare souls who have the secret of finding their lives glamorous and themselves magnificent under the most humble conditions. Connie Benjamin, the vi...
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Angels on Toast
By Dawn Powell
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, a...
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A Time to Be Born
By Dawn Powell
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...
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The locusts have no king
By Dawn Powell
In this classic satire by the writer Gore Vidal once called "our best comic novelist," Dawn Powell takes on the New York publishing world and dissects it "with the patience of a pathologist removin...
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My Home Is Far Away
By Dawn Powell Foreword By Tim Page
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 stru...
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