A Time to Be Born
Pushkin Press Classics (Verlag)
978-1-80533-326-5 (ISBN)
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That's until the past comes knocking in the form of Vicky Haven, a meek school friend desperate for a lesson in reinvention. Ever the strategist, Amanda lands Vicky a job in listings and a studio apartment-perfectly placed for Amanda's daytime trysts with old flame, Ken Saunders. But matters of the heart rarely follow orders. When Vicky begins to wise up to her scheme, and sets her own sights on Ken, she ignites a love triangle that threatens to topple Amanda's carefully constructed empire.
Scathingly funny and irresistibly glamorous, A Time to Be Born is a timeless portrait of social climbing, set in a 1940s Manhattan rife with backstabbing charm, brittle friendships and women who always land on their feet.
Dawn Powell (1896-1965) was an American novelist and playwright known for her incisive satires of New York's cultural and literary circles. Born in Mount Gilead, Ohio, she endured a tumultuous childhood before running away at thirteen to live with an aunt who later supported her studies at Lake Erie College. After graduating, Powell moved to New York City, immersing herself in the bohemian atmosphere of Greenwich Village as a "permanent visitor" to the metropolis. She gained early recognition for her witty, often risqué pieces in The New Yorker and Esquire, and 1939 became a Scribner author, sharing legendary editor Maxwell Perkins with Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Although Powell enjoyed a devoted circle of admirers, her work drifted into obscurity after her death. Interest in her novels was revived decades later through Gore Vidal's appraisal in The New York Review of Books, as well as championing from Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Tim Page, who as executor of her estate has worked tirelessly to keep Powell in print.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.6.2026 |
|---|---|
| Einführung | Marlowe Granados |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker |
| Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-80533-326-7 / 1805333267 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-80533-326-5 / 9781805333265 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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