StartGroepenDiscussieMeerTijdgeest
Doorzoek de site
Onze site gebruikt cookies om diensten te leveren, prestaties te verbeteren, voor analyse en (indien je niet ingelogd bent) voor advertenties. Door LibraryThing te gebruiken erken je dat je onze Servicevoorwaarden en Privacybeleid gelezen en begrepen hebt. Je gebruik van de site en diensten is onderhevig aan dit beleid en deze voorwaarden.

Resultaten uit Google Boeken

Klik op een omslag om naar Google Boeken te gaan.

Bezig met laden...

Dawn Powell: Novels, 1930-1942

door Dawn Powell

Andere auteurs: Tim Page (Redacteur)

LedenBesprekingenPopulariteitGemiddelde beoordelingAanhalingen
409461,068 (4.15)10
American literature has known few writers capable of the comic elan and full-bodied portraiture that abound in the novels of Dawn Powell. Yet for decades after her death, Powell's work was out of print, cherished only by a small band of admirers. Only recently has there been a rediscovery of the writer Gore Vidal calls "our best comic novelist," and whom Edmund Wilson considered to be "on a level with Anthony Powell, Evelyn Waugh, and Muriel Spark." In a two-volume set, The Library of America presents the best of Powell's brilliant, often hilarious, sometimes deeply moving fiction. Dawn Powell -- a vital part of literary Greenwich Village from the 1920s through the 1960s -- was the observant chronicler of two very different worlds: the small-town Ohio where she grew up and the sophisticated Manhattan where she lived for nearly fifty years. If her Ohio novels are more melancholy and compassionate, her Manhattan novels, exuberant and incisive, sparkle with a cast of writers, show people, businessmen, and hangers-on -- all caught with Powell's uniquely sharp yet compassionate eye. A playful satirist, an unsentimental observer of failed hopes and misguided longings, Dawn Powell is a literary rediscovery of rare importance. Dance Night (1930), Powell's own favorite among her works, is a surprisingly frank treatment of obsessive longing set in an Ohio factory town during the 1920s. Come Back to Sorrento (1932), a compelling study of frustrated aspirations, tells the story of a woman whose friendship with a music teacher awakens her to a sense of her life's wasted potential. With Turn, Magic Wheel (1936), a whirlwind tour of New York's literary world, Powell reinvented herself as a satirical writer. Her treatment of the "city of perpetual distraction" captures the allure of Manhattan with a lightness and wit to be found in all her New York novels. Angels on Toast (1940), whose farcical pace recalls screwball comedy, is a shrewd treatment of the adulterous misadventures of two salesmen. In A Time To Be Born (1942), set during the dizzying months before America's entry into World War II, Powell portrays the monstrously egotistical Amanda Keeler Evans -- one of her most wickedly barbed creations. Book jacket.… (meer)
Bezig met laden...

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.

» Zie ook 10 vermeldingen

Toon 4 van 4
See review on 2nd volume. ( )
  walterhistory | Oct 27, 2022 |
Read part of Dance Night, couldn't really get into it.
  ritaer | Dec 19, 2018 |
I don't remember this very well, but I'm pretty sure I read all the stories (novellas?) in this volume. I do feel confident in encouraging you to read it if you're interested. ( )
  Cheryl_in_CC_NV | Jun 6, 2016 |
"Dance night", "Come back to Sorrento", "Turn, magic wheel", "Angels on toast", "A time to be born"
  IICANA | May 9, 2016 |
Toon 4 van 4
geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe

» Andere auteurs toevoegen

AuteursnaamRolType auteurWerk?Status
Dawn Powellprimaire auteuralle editiesberekend
Page, TimRedacteurSecundaire auteuralle editiesbevestigd
Je moet ingelogd zijn om Algemene Kennis te mogen bewerken.
Voor meer hulp zie de helppagina Algemene Kennis .
Gangbare titel
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis. Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Oorspronkelijke titel
Alternatieve titels
Oorspronkelijk jaar van uitgave
Mensen/Personages
Belangrijke plaatsen
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis. Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Belangrijke gebeurtenissen
Verwante films
Motto
Opdracht
Eerste woorden
Citaten
Laatste woorden
Ontwarringsbericht
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis. Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
This is an omnibus unique to the Library of America; therefore, all CK facts apply to this publication only.
Uitgevers redacteuren
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis. Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Auteur van flaptekst/aanprijzing
Oorspronkelijke taal
Gangbare DDC/MDS
Canonieke LCC

Verwijzingen naar dit werk in externe bronnen.

Wikipedia in het Engels (3)

American literature has known few writers capable of the comic elan and full-bodied portraiture that abound in the novels of Dawn Powell. Yet for decades after her death, Powell's work was out of print, cherished only by a small band of admirers. Only recently has there been a rediscovery of the writer Gore Vidal calls "our best comic novelist," and whom Edmund Wilson considered to be "on a level with Anthony Powell, Evelyn Waugh, and Muriel Spark." In a two-volume set, The Library of America presents the best of Powell's brilliant, often hilarious, sometimes deeply moving fiction. Dawn Powell -- a vital part of literary Greenwich Village from the 1920s through the 1960s -- was the observant chronicler of two very different worlds: the small-town Ohio where she grew up and the sophisticated Manhattan where she lived for nearly fifty years. If her Ohio novels are more melancholy and compassionate, her Manhattan novels, exuberant and incisive, sparkle with a cast of writers, show people, businessmen, and hangers-on -- all caught with Powell's uniquely sharp yet compassionate eye. A playful satirist, an unsentimental observer of failed hopes and misguided longings, Dawn Powell is a literary rediscovery of rare importance. Dance Night (1930), Powell's own favorite among her works, is a surprisingly frank treatment of obsessive longing set in an Ohio factory town during the 1920s. Come Back to Sorrento (1932), a compelling study of frustrated aspirations, tells the story of a woman whose friendship with a music teacher awakens her to a sense of her life's wasted potential. With Turn, Magic Wheel (1936), a whirlwind tour of New York's literary world, Powell reinvented herself as a satirical writer. Her treatment of the "city of perpetual distraction" captures the allure of Manhattan with a lightness and wit to be found in all her New York novels. Angels on Toast (1940), whose farcical pace recalls screwball comedy, is a shrewd treatment of the adulterous misadventures of two salesmen. In A Time To Be Born (1942), set during the dizzying months before America's entry into World War II, Powell portrays the monstrously egotistical Amanda Keeler Evans -- one of her most wickedly barbed creations. Book jacket.

Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden.

Boekbeschrijving
Haiku samenvatting

Actuele discussies

Geen

Populaire omslagen

Snelkoppelingen

Waardering

Gemiddelde: (4.15)
0.5
1
1.5
2 1
2.5 1
3 1
3.5 1
4 10
4.5 1
5 8

Ben jij dit?

Word een LibraryThing Auteur.

The Library of America

Een editie van dit boek werd gepubliceerd door The Library of America.

» Informatiepagina uitgever

 

Over | Contact | LibraryThing.com | Privacy/Voorwaarden | Help/Veelgestelde vragen | Blog | Winkel | APIs | TinyCat | Nagelaten Bibliotheken | Vroege Recensenten | Algemene kennis | 202,659,197 boeken! | Bovenbalk: Altijd zichtbaar