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Time to Be Born
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Title: Time to Be Born
Author: Dawn Powell
ISBN: 1883642418
Publisher: Steerforth
Published: 1998
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Steerforth Press
Number of Pages: 334
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: This scathing "comedy of manners" set in the 1940s "steers us through the lives of women who come to New York . . . for love, money, opportunity, and a good time" (New York Times). At the center of this 1942 novel are a wealthy, self-involved newspaper publisher and his scheming, novelist wife, Amanda Keeler--who ensnares Ohioan Vicky Haven in her social and romantic manipulations. Author Dawn Powell always denied Amanda Keeler was based upon the real-life Clare Boothe Luce until years later when she discovered a memo she'd written to herself in 1939 that said, "Why not do a novel on Clare Luce?" Which prompted Powell to write in her diary, "Who can I believe? Me or myself?" Set against an atmospheric backdrop of New York City in the months just before America' s entry into World War II, A Time of Be Born is a scathing and hilarious study of cynical New Yorkers stalking each other for various selfish ends.
Author: Dawn Powell
ISBN: 1883642418
Publisher: Steerforth
Published: 1998
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Steerforth Press
Number of Pages: 334
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: This scathing "comedy of manners" set in the 1940s "steers us through the lives of women who come to New York . . . for love, money, opportunity, and a good time" (New York Times). At the center of this 1942 novel are a wealthy, self-involved newspaper publisher and his scheming, novelist wife, Amanda Keeler--who ensnares Ohioan Vicky Haven in her social and romantic manipulations. Author Dawn Powell always denied Amanda Keeler was based upon the real-life Clare Boothe Luce until years later when she discovered a memo she'd written to herself in 1939 that said, "Why not do a novel on Clare Luce?" Which prompted Powell to write in her diary, "Who can I believe? Me or myself?" Set against an atmospheric backdrop of New York City in the months just before America' s entry into World War II, A Time of Be Born is a scathing and hilarious study of cynical New Yorkers stalking each other for various selfish ends.
