A Time to Be Born - Couverture souple

Powell, Dawn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1805333267 ISBN 13 : 9781805333265

Editeur : Pushkin Press Classics, 2026

Synopsis

Dawn Powell’s dazzling tale of ambition, betrayal and romantic chaos, introduced by Marlowe Granados.

‘A fascinating study of New York’s power society’ Hernan Diaz, author of Trust

‘Among the greatest writers of her time’ Andrew O’Hagan, author of Caledonian Road

Amanda Keeler is a bestselling novelist, famed for her martini-soaked parties. It’s a glamorous life, paid for in full by marriage to a tedious, teeth-grinding newspaper tycoon.

When a meek friend from her provincial past arrives in Manhattan, Amanda plots to use her as cover for an affair—until she realises that they have both fallen for the same man.

Sophisticated, scandalous and acidly funny, this is a portrait of a woman determined to have everything, even if it costs the one thing she never meant to gamble: her heart.

Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe.

Dawn Powell (1896–1965) was a novelist and playwright known for her satires of New York’s cultural and literary circles. Born in Mount Gilead, Ohio, she endured a tumultuous childhood before running away at thirteen to live with an aunt who encouraged her writing aspirations. After graduating from Lake Erie College, Powell moved to New York City, immersing herself in the bohemian atmosphere of Greenwich Village.

She gained early recognition for her witty pieces in The New Yorker and Esquire, and in 1939 became a Scribner author, sharing the legendary editor Maxwell Perkins with Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Although Powell enjoyed a devoted circle of admirers, her work drifted into obscurity after her death. Interest in her novels was later revived by the tireless work of Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Tim Page, executor of her estate, and also through Gore Vidal’s influential appraisal in The New York Review of Books.

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À propos de l'auteur

Dawn Powell was born in Ohio in 1896, the second of three daughters. After enduring great cruelty at the hands of her stepmother, Dawn ran away at the age of thirteen and arrived at the home of her aunt, who served hot meals to travellers emerging from the train station across the street. Powell worked her way through college and made it to New York. Powell referred to herself as a "permanent visitor" in her adopted Manhattan and brought to her writing a perspective gained from her upbringing in Middle America. She knew many legendary writers of her time, and Diana Trilling famously said it was Dawn 'who really says the funny things for which Dorothy Parker gets credit.' Ernest Hemingway called her his 'favorite living writer.' She died in 1965 she was buried in New York's Potter's Field.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pushkin Press Classics
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1805333267
• ISBN 13: 9781805333265
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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