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Dawn Powell (1896–1965)

Autor von Dawn Powell: Novels, 1930-1942

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Beinhaltet die Namen: daw powell, dawn powell

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Werke von Dawn Powell

Dawn Powell: Novels, 1930-1942 (2001) 409 Exemplare
Dawn Powell: Novels 1944-1962 (2001) 349 Exemplare
A Time to Be Born (1942) 272 Exemplare
The Locusts Have No King (1948) 267 Exemplare
Das Cafe an der Zehnten Straße. (1990) 259 Exemplare
Meine ferne Heimat : Roman (1998) 157 Exemplare
Turn, Magic Wheel (1997) 153 Exemplare
Angels on Toast (1940) 149 Exemplare
The Happy Island (1998) 77 Exemplare
Come Back to Sorrento (1998) 69 Exemplare
Dance Night (1999) 65 Exemplare
Dawn Powell at Her Best (1994) 65 Exemplare
The Bride's House (1998) 41 Exemplare
Four Plays by Dawn Powell (1999) 20 Exemplare
The Story of a Country Boy (2001) 15 Exemplare
Can't Catch Me (1994) 12 Exemplare
A cage for lovers (1966) 6 Exemplare
She Walks in Beauty 3 Exemplare
Complete Novels 2 Exemplare
Such a Pretty Day 2 Exemplare
Downtown Ladies (1994) 2 Exemplare
Whither 1 Exemplar
Jig saw, a comedy 1 Exemplar
Powell Dawn 1 Exemplar
Cafè Julien (2015) 1 Exemplar

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The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben550 Exemplare
Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology (2004) — Mitwirkender — 297 Exemplare
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (1998) — Mitwirkender — 275 Exemplare
Short Stories from The New Yorker, 1925 to 1940 (1940) — Mitwirkender — 201 Exemplare
The Norton Book of Personal Essays (1997) — Mitwirkender — 142 Exemplare

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Geburtstag
1896-11-28
Todestag
1965-11-14
Begräbnisort
Hart Island, New York, New York, USA
Geschlecht
female
Nationalität
USA
Geburtsort
Mount Gilead, Ohio, USA
Sterbeort
New York, New York, USA
Wohnorte
Mount Gilead, Ohio, USA
New York, New York, USA
Shelby, Ohio, USA
Ausbildung
Lake Erie College
Berufe
freelance writer
film extra (silent films)
screenwriter
radio personality
novelist
short story writer (Zeige alle 8)
playwright
diarist
Kurzbiographie
Dawn Powell was born in Mount Gilead, Ohio. She had a difficult childhood and ran away to the home of an aunt at age 13. She lived there while attending high school and went to Lake Erie College for Women in Painesville, where she wrote stories and plays, acted in college productions, and contributed to and edited the college newspaper. She graduated in 1918. and moved to New York City's Greenwich Village. She was an active member of the artistic scene there, often using it in her novels and plays. She never became a really popular writer in her own lifetime, and most of her works were out of print by the time of her death. However, they've since undergone a revival and she is now considered an underappreciated comic and satiric genius.

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It’s a masterpiece, plain and simple.
 
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Mark_Feltskog | 6 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 23, 2023 |
This is my introduction to the sublime world of Dawn Powell, and I wish that this book's publisher--Steerforth Press--had dedicated more time to giving it a proper copyediting. I don't know what goes into the production process when a book is reprinted, but repairing spelling and syntax faults seems like as good a place as any to prioritize. Though this book is rife with spelling errors, I cite for you this unintentional howler, marring an otherwise stunning sentence:

"...in the corner tottered a huge rococo wardrobe closet decorated with life-size Cupids chipping off like old love itself, the loose doors popping open at the sound of any bell or automobile horn as if to allow refuse [sic!] for half a dozen secret lovers instead of for the the costumes packed within."

Ms. Powell's manuscript, I am confident, used refuge rather than refuse. Why go to the trouble of publishing this fine novel in a handsome trade paper edition, then not bother to edit it for this kind of glaring error?

Steerforth has apparently reprinted the bulk of Dawn Powell's oeuvre (although some of her books have also been published in superb Library of America editions, a treatment they richly deserve), so I expect if I want to read Dance Night, I'll suffer similar incompetence.

That said, this is an excellent book, evocative of its place and time, and written, as cited above, in excellent prose. Highly recommended.
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Mark_Feltskog | 4 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 23, 2023 |
Now I am left wanting to know what is going to happen to these characters next! Will Amanda be a success?

Very amusing look at the life of an ambitious woman, originally from a small Midwestern town, in New York City in the time just before the United States entered WW2 (1939-1940).
 
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leslie.98 | 6 weitere Rezensionen | Jun 27, 2023 |
Set in the 40's in New York City, this is the story of vanity, pride, and greed. A young woman from a small town becomes the famed wife of a famous publisher; her friend from her home town has been jilted by a lover comes to New York and takes a job at the publishing company.

This is basically the story of people using each other. Very dated.
 
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maryreinert | 6 weitere Rezensionen | Nov 21, 2022 |

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