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Powell, Dawn, and Vidal, Gore (Introduction by)
Angels on Toast
South Royalton, VT Steerforth Press 1996 188364240X / 9781883642402 First edition thus Trade Paperback Very Good
245 pp.; 21 cm. First published, 1940. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps. Stated "First Printing." "Angels on Toast is on the make: Lou Donovan, the entrepeneur who ricochets frantically between his well-connected current wife, his disreputable ex, and his dangerously greedy mistress; Trina Kameray, the exotic adventuress whose job title is as phony as her accent; T.V. Truesdale, the man with the aristocratic manner, the fourteen-dollar suit, and the hyperactive eye for the main chance. A dizzyingly fast-paced and deliriously entertaining novel. / DAWN POWELL lived from 1897 to 1965 and was the author of fifteen novels, numerous short stories, and half-a-dozen plays." - Publisher. "For decades Dawn Powell was always just on the verge of ceasing to be a cult and becoming a major religion." -- Gore Vidal
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Powell, Dawn
The Locusts Have No King
Hanover, NH Zoland Books; Steerforth Press 1999 1883642426 / 9781883642426 4th printing Trade Paperback Fine
286 pp.; 21 cm. Includes: Reading Group Discussion Guide at the back. First published, 1948. Tight, clean copy. "For decades Dawn Powell was always just on the verge of ceasing to be a cult and becoming a major religion." -- Gore Vidal. "Ten years after Steerforth launched the Dawn Powell revival, her five best-selling novels are being reissued in newly designed Zoland Books editions with Reading Group Guides inside. Late in life, out of luck and fashion, Henry James predicted a day when all of his neglected novels would kick off their headstones, one after another. As the twentieth century came to an end, the works of Dawn Powell managed the same magnificent task. When Powell died in 1965, virtually all her books were out of print. Not a single historical survey of American literature mentioned her, even in passing. And so she slept, seemingly destined to be forgotten - or, to put it more exactly, never to be remembered. How things have changed! Twelve of Powell’s novels have now been reissued, along with editions of her plays, diaries, letters, and short stories. She has joined the Library of America, admitted to the illustrious company of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Adams, Frederick Douglass, and Edith Wharton. She is taught in college and read with delight on vacation. For the contemporary poet and novelist Lisa Zeidner, writing in The New York Times Book Review, Powell 'is wittier than Dorothy Parker, dissects the rich better than F. Scott Fitzgerald, is more plaintive than Willa Cather in her evocation of the heartland, and has a more supple control of satirical voice than Evelyn Waugh.' For his part, Gore Vidal offered a simple reason for Powell's sudden popularity: 'We are catching up to her.' Tim Page, Powell's biographer, from his new foreword to My Home Is Far Away, Dawn Powell was born in Mt. Gilead, Ohio, on November 28, 1896, the second of three daughters. Her father was a traveling salesman, and her mother died a few days after Dawn turned seven. After enduring great cruelty at the hands of her stepmother, Dawn ran away at the age of thirteen and eventually arrived at the home of her maternal aunt, who served hot meals to travelers emerging from the train station across the street. Dawn worked her way through college and made it to New York. There she married a young advertising executive and had one child, a boy who suffered from autism, then an unknown condition. 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 of the great 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 was one of America's great novelists, and yet when she died in 1965 she was buried in an unmarked grave in New York's Potter’s Field. Her books live, and with these newly designed editions, with their reading group guides inside, more people than ever before will be able to hear Dawn's distinctive voice." - Publisher.
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