A Time to Be Born Paperback - 1998
by Dawn Powell
Set against a marvelously atmospheric backdrop of the city in the months just before America's entry into World War II, Powell here offers a scathing and hilarious study of cynical New Yorkers stalking each other for selfish ends. At the center of the story are a wealthy, self-involved newspaper publisher and his scheming, novelist wife.
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Set against an atmospheric backdrop of New York City in the months just before America's entry into World War II, A Time To Be Born is a scathing and hilarious study of cynical New Yorkers stalking each other for various selfish ends. At the center of the story are a wealthy, self-involved newspaper publisher and his scheming, novelist wife, Amanda Keeler. Powell always denied that 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?"
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- Title A Time to Be Born
- Author Dawn Powell
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Steerforth Press
- Pages 327
- Language EN
- Publisher Steerforth Press, South Royalton, VT, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-06-01
- ISBN 9781883642419
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Geographic Orientation: New York
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Citations
- Library Journal, 09/15/1996, Page 102
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