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]]> female 1901/12/13 1965/11/14 180378 1883642418 9781883642419 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1233004871m/180378.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1233004871s/180378.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/180378.A_Time_to_Be_Born 3.94 102 A Time To Be Born is a scathing and hilarious study of cynical New Yorkers stalking each other for various selfish ends. At the center of the story are a wealthy, self-involved newspaper publisher and his scheming, novelist wife, Amanda Keeler. Powell always denied that Amanda Keeler was based upon the real-life Clare Boothe Luce, until years later when she discovered a memo she'd written to herself in 1939 that said, "Why not do a novel on Clare Luce?", which prompted Powell to write in her diary "Who can I believe? Me or myself?"]]> 53013 3.97 649 92 1942 92292 1883642396 9781883642396 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171245340m/92292.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171245340s/92292.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92292.The_Wicked_Pavilion 4.00 80 Turn, Magic Wheel, makes an appearance here, as does Andy Callingham, Powell’s thinly disguised Ernest Hemingway. The climax of this mercilessly funny novel comes with a party which, remarked Gore Vidal, “resembles Proust’s last roundup,” and where one of the partygoers observes, “There are some people here who have been dead twenty years.”

"For decades Dawn Powell was always just on the verge of ceasing to be a cult and becoming a major religion." -- Gore Vidal]]> 53013 3.97 649 92 1990 92290 1883642426 9781883642426 15 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171245339m/92290.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171245339s/92290.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92290.The_Locusts_Have_No_King 4.05 78 "For decades Dawn Powell was always just on the verge of ceasing to be a cult and becoming a major religion." -- Gore Vidal]]> 53013 3.97 649 92 1990 883193 1883642728 9781883642723 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179172879m/883193.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179172879s/883193.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/883193.Turn_Magic_Wheel 3.84 62 53013 3.97 649 92 1999 369037 1883642434 9781883642433 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174183800m/369037.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174183800s/369037.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/369037.My_Home_Is_Far_Away_An_Autobiographical_Novel 4.11 53 A Time to Be Born, when she contracted a fever that brought childhood memories back so vividly that she stopped her novel and began scrawling reminiscences that were later collected in My Home Is Far Away. Although not true autobiography, the life of the main character, Marcia Willard, parallels Powell's life, including the death of her mother, life with a father who was on the road, and the traumatic remarriage of her father to a vicious and selfish woman. My Home Is Far Away is an excellent depiction of what childcare was like for motherless children in the 19th century in comparison to their family-oriented neighbors.]]> 53013 3.97 649 92 1998 94988 1883642272 9781883642273 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171295044m/94988.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171295044s/94988.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/94988.The_Golden_Spur 3.98 54 The Golden Spur was Dawn Powell’s last novel.]]> 53013 3.97 649 92 1962 217076 0679726861 9780679726869 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218349387m/217076.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218349387s/217076.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217076.Angels_on_Toast 4.04 49 53013 3.97 649 92 1990 180377 188364271X 9781883642716 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172484802m/180377.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172484802s/180377.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/180377.Dance_Night 3.78 36 Boston Globe, "the ways in which this is good, and the ways in which it is poisonous; the whole book is suffused with yearning for the world beyond." Every Thursday night at the Casino Dance Hall above Bauer's Chop House and across the street from Elsinore Abbott's Bon Ton Hat Shop and Bill Delaney's Saloon and Billiard Parlor, women and a few men gather to escape their pedestrian lives in fantasy, and sometimes to live out these fantasies. Observing all are the novel's two young protagonists, Morry, who dreams of becoming an architect and developer, and Jen, an unsentimental orphan of fourteen who, abandoned by her mother, dreams of escape.]]> 53013 3.97 649 92 1999 217075 1883642795 9781883642792 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172787093m/217075.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172787093s/217075.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217075.The_Happy_Island 3.91 34 The Happy Island has had its admirers over the years (Gore Vidal called this one of his favorite Powell novels), and to be found here are surely some of Powell’s most biting one-liners. But the book may not be for every taste, and the succinct notice that appeared in The New Yorker upon first publication might stand as a warning to some readers: "Night-club life of New York. Plenty of heavy drinking, perfumed love affairs, and in general the doings of a pretty worthless and ornery lot of people. Miss Powell serves it up with a dash of wit and for good measure throws in a couple of boys named Bert and Willy, who nearly steal the show from the main characters."]]> 53013 3.97 649 92 1998 444861 1883642264 9781883642266 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174841878m/444861.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174841878s/444861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/444861.Come_Back_to_Sorrento 4.17 18 The Tenth Moon, Come Back to Sorrento is the second of Powell’s "Ohio novels" to be re-issued in paperback. Here 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 village shoemaker’s wife, always wanted an operatic career. Blaine Decker, the new high school music teacher, once spent time abroad studying piano. The two are drawn together into a powerful friendship of dependence, each sustaining the other and translating the surface monotony of their lives into drama richer than reality.]]> 53013 3.97 649 92 1998