{"product_id":"time-to-be-born","title":"Time to Be Born","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eTime to Be Born\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eDawn Powell\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e1883642418\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eSteerforth\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1998\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eSteerforth Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e334\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis 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\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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?\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Set against an atmospheric backdrop of New York City in the months just before America' s entry into World War II, \u003ci\u003eA Time of Be Born\u003c\/i\u003e is a scathing and hilarious study of cynical New Yorkers stalking each other for various selfish ends.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Steerforth","offers":[{"title":"Time to Be Born | Dawn Powell | Paperback | 1883642418 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks R 1781713","offer_id":49966760427672,"sku":"1781713","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/61CsqO3RlnL.jpg?v=1790024852","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/time-to-be-born","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}