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Dawn Powell: Novels 19441962 (LOA #127): My Home Is Far Away / The Locusts Have No King / The Wicked Pavilion / The Golden Spur,New
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American literature has known few writers capable of the comic lan and fullbodied portraiture that abound in the novels of Dawn Powell. Yet for decades after her death, Powells work was out of print, cherished by a small band of admirers. Only recently has there been a rediscovery of the writer Gore Vidal calls our best comic novelist, and whom Edmund Wilson considered to be on a level with Anthony Powell, Evelyn Waugh, and Muriel Spark. In this, one of two volumes collecting nine novels, The Library of America presents the best of Powells quirky, often hilarious, sometimes deeply moving fiction.My Home Is Far Away (1944), the last of Powells novels set in Ohio, is a fictionalized memoir of Powells difficult childhood. With The Locusts Have No King (1948), the story of a scholars unexpected brush with the temptations of celebrity and riches, Powell resumed her lifelong dissection of New Yorks pretensions and glamour. The first of three brilliant postwar satires, it was followed by The Wicked Pavilion (1954), a novel that lays bare its characters illusions about love and success against the backdrop of the Caf Julien, a relic of a bygone era in the history of Greenwich Village. The volume concludes with Powells final novel, The Golden Spur (1962), in which she drew on her time spent among painters at the famed Cedar Tavern for an affectionate if pointed satire on Manhattans art world.Dawn Powells New York novels are exactly what she wanted them to be: crystal in quality, sharp as the skyline, and relentlessly true.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nations literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, Americas best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acidfree paper that will last for centuries.
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