The Message of the City: Dawn Powell's New York Novels 1925-1962 - Couverture rigide

Palermo, Patricia E.

 
9780804011679: The Message of the City: Dawn Powell's New York Novels 1925-1962
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ISBN 10 : 0804011672 ISBN 13 : 9780804011679
Editeur : Swallow Press, 2016

Synopsis

Dawn Powell was a gifted satirist who moved in the same circles as Dorothy Parker, Ernest Hemingway, renowned editor Maxwell Perkins, and other midcentury New York luminaries. Her many novels are typically divided into two groups: those dealing with her native Ohio and those set in New York. "From the moment she left behind her harsh upbringing in Mount Gilead, Ohio, and arrived in Manhattan, in 1918, she dove into city life with an outlander's anthropological zeal," reads a recent New Yorker piece about Powell, and it is those New York novels that built her reputation for scouring wit and social observation.

In this critical biography and study of the New York novels, Patricia Palermo reminds us how Powell earned a place in the national literary establishment and East Coast social scene. Though Powell's prolific output has been out of print for most of the past few decades, a revival is under way: the Library of America, touting her as a "rediscovered American comic genius," released her collected novels, and in 2015 she was posthumously inducted into the New York State Writer's Hall of Fame.

Engaging and erudite, The Message of the City fills a major gap in in the story of a long-overlooked literary great. Palermo places Powell in cultural and historical context and, drawing on her diaries, reveals the real-life inspirations for some of her most delicious satire.

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À propos de l'auteur

Patricia E. Palermo is a Southern California native, professor of English, and independent scholar who has lived in the New York City area for more than twenty years.

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Éditeur
Swallow Press
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0804011672
ISBN 13 
9780804011679
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
376
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780804011686: The Message of the City: Dawn Powell's New York Novels 1925-1962

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ISBN 10 :  0804011680 ISBN 13 :  9780804011686
Editeur : Swallow Press, 2016
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