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Bezig met laden... The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965door Dawn Powell
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. These are interesting but not as interesting as the novels. In her diaries, Powell collected vignets of New York life, recorded her anxieties and inspirations, chronicled significant events in her life, set down aphorisms for use in her fictions, and cataloged the roster of the people who passed through her life from Edmund Wilson ("Bunny") to Filipe Alfau. The novels are finished works of art, full of satire and life, and yield a more rounded and literary experience. The diary is a peak behind the curtain, but the novels contain the magic. ( )
There are few intimate revelations in the diaries. There is a hint that she and the Communist playwright John Howard Lawson once had an affair but one doubts that with the other points to her triangle-Joe and Coby-they would have bothered much with sex when wit and work and the company of each other and the passing parade of the Village was more than enough to occupy them. One is astonished at the amount of work that Dawn was obliged to do in order to pay for the institutionalized son, with not much help from Joe, himself feckless in money matters. She even made an obligatory trip or two to Hollywood to write for movies. Of Hollywood: "The climate picks you up and throws you down in the most amazing way." That was about it. Is verkort inPrijzen
Dawn Powell had a brilliant mind and a keen wit and her humor was never at a finer pitch than in her diaries. And yet her story is a poignant one - a son emotionally and mentally impaired, a household of too much alcohol and never enough money, and an artistic career that, if not a failure, fell far short of the success she craved. All is recorded here - along with working sketches for her novels, and often revealing portraits of her many friends (a literary who's who of her period) - in her always unique style and without self-delusion. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)818.5203Literature English (North America) Authors, American and American miscellany 20th Century 1900-1945 DiariesLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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