Dawn Powell Libros

American literature has few writers with the comic flair and vivid character portrayals found in the novels of Dawn Powell. For decades after her death, her work remained out of print, appreciated only by a small group of fans. Recently, however, she has been rediscovered, with Gore Vidal calling her "our best comic novelist" and Edmund Wilson placing her alongside literary giants like Anthony Powell and Evelyn Waugh. A two-volume set from The Library of America showcases Powell's unique, often humorous, and sometimes poignant fiction. A key figure in literary Greenwich Village from the 1920s to the 1960s, Powell chronicled two contrasting worlds: her melancholic Ohio upbringing and the vibrant Manhattan life she embraced for nearly fifty years. Her Ohio novels exude compassion, while her Manhattan stories are lively and incisive, featuring a colorful array of writers and socialites, all seen through her sharp yet empathetic lens. A masterful satirist and keen observer of human folly, Powell's work is a significant literary rediscovery. "My Home Is Far Away" (1944) reflects her challenging childhood, while "The Locusts Have No King" (1948) explores a scholar's encounter with fame. This is followed by "The Wicked Pavilion" (1954), which critiques illusions of love and success in Greenwich Village, and concludes with "The Golden Spur" (1962), a satire of Manhattan's art scene inspired by her experiences at the Cedar Tavern.

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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.

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