Dawn Powell: Novels 1944-1962 (LOA #127): My Home Is Far Away / The Locusts Have

Description: Dawn Powell: Novels 1944-1962 (LOA #127) by Dawn Powell For decades after her death, Dawn Powell's work was out of print, cherished by a small band of admirers. Only recently has there been renewed awareness of the novelist who was such a vital presence in literary Greenwich Village from the 1920s to the 1960s. With these two volumes, The Library of America presents the best of Powell's quirky, often hilarious, sometimes deeply moving fiction.Dawn Powell was the tirelessly observant chronicler of two very different worlds: the small-town Ohio of her childhood and the sophisticated Manhattan to which she gravitated. If her Ohio novels are more melancholy and compassionate in their depiction of often frustrated lives, her Manhattan novels, with their cast of writers, show people, businessmen, and hustling hangers-on, are more exuberant and incisive. But all show rich characterization and a flair for the gist of social complexities. A playful satirist, an unsentimental observer of failed hopes and misguided longings, Dawn Powell is a literary rediscovery of rare importance. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description American literature has known few writers capable of the comic élan and full-bodied 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 Café 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 acid-free paper that will last for centuries. Author Biography Dawn Powell (1896-1965), the author of numerous novels, plays, and story collections, was a vital part of the pre- and postwar Greenwich Village literary scene. Details ISBN1931082022 Author Dawn Powell Short Title LIAM DAWN POWELL NOVELS 1944-1 Pages 969 Language English ISBN-10 1931082022 ISBN-13 9781931082020 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY FIC Year 2001 Residence US Birth 1896 Death 1965 DOI 10.1604/9781931082020 Edited by Page, Tim Imprint The Library of America Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2001-09-10 NZ Release Date 2001-09-10 US Release Date 2001-09-10 UK Release Date 2001-09-10 Publisher The Library of America Series Library of America Dawn Powell Edition Publication Date 2001-09-10 Subtitle My Home Is Far Away / The Locusts Have No King / The Wicked Pavilion / The Golden Spur Series Number 2 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:12032839;

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