Dawn Powell Novels, 1944-1962: My Home is Far Away, the Locusts Have No King, the Wicked Pavilion, the Golden Spur

by Dawn Powell

Book Overview

American literature has known few writers capable of the comic lan and full-bodied portraiture that abound in the novels of Dawn Powell. Yet for decades after her death, Powell's work was out of print, cherished by a small band of admirers. Only recently has there been a rediscovery of the writer Gore Vidal calls "our best comic novelist," and whom Edmund Wilson considered to be "on a level with Anthony Powell, Evelyn Waugh, and Muriel Spark." In...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931082022
• ISBN13: 9781931082020
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Library of America
• Length: 969 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.3" x 8.2"