Dawn Powell at Her Best

by Dawn Powell, Tim Page (Editor)

"Deft, funny, knowing, compassionate and poetic." -- John Updike in The New Yorker

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories

452 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Dawn Powell was an American writer of satirical novels and stories that manage to be barbed and sensitive at the same time.

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

A bit too much Powell but that last short is def my fave.

[Brightsky9 · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like the edginess of "Dance Night," the first novel in the book. That and the short stories affirm the Dawn Powell revival of the late 1990s that brought her work out of oblivion. That said, I didn't read the 2nd novel in this collection, "Turn, Magic Wheel" - too much too soon, which suggests that novels are best left freestanding, when possible.

[Chris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Turn, Magic Wheel, a New York novel, is more biting than the Ohio novel but also very very good. The stories that fill out this anthology are also excellent.