On a Wicked Dawn (Cynster Novels)

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Amelia Cynster is stunned to hear these words from Lucien Ashford—the enigmatic sixth Viscount Calverton and the man she has always loved—just before the handsome rogue passes out at her feet. Dawn is breaking and she's already risked scandal by lying in wait for him just outside his London home. And though torn between indignant affront and astonished relief, she's nevertheless thrilled that Luc has agreed to her outrageous marriage proposal.

However, rather than submitting to a hasty wedding as Amelia had planned, the exasperating lord insists on wooing her properly…in public and in private. She longs for their time alone, when she can learn all about seduction from a master, yet frustratingly, they all too often find themselves beneath the stifling gaze of the ton.

But there is method behind the viscount's madness—he has a secret reason for wooing Amelia. And like all desirable things, his passion has a price.

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E-book extra: From the Lab to the Regency: One Writer's Travels (Part Two): An Interview with Stephanie Laurens. "Marrying you will be entirely my pleasure." Amelia Cynster hears these words from the handsome, enigmatic Lucien Ashford and is stunned. It's near dawn and she's risked scandal by lying in wait for him just outside his London house. But he agrees to her outrageous marriage proposal - just prior to passing out at her feet. Amelia's torn between astounded relief and indignant affront, then decides she doesn't care. She has always loved him - no other man will do - and, frankly, she's tired of waiting. Sometimes a young lady needs to take matters into her own hands. But matters of the heart are never that simple. The first hitch in Amelia's plans comes when Luc refuses to agree to a hasty wedding but insists on properly wooing her...in public and private. Soon, she longs for those moments away from the watchful gaze of the ton, in which she can learn all about seduction from a master. But unbeknown to Amelia, Luc has a very good reason for wooing her. Every wicked gentleman has his price. Be sure not to miss the tale of Amelia's twin, Amanda Cynster - On a Wild Night - also available from PerfectBound e-books.

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Definitely Worth A Read.......2006-12-06

I don't know what people are complaining about - I really loved this one. The relationship between Luc and Amelia develops nicely and the love scenes are delectable. Give it a chance!

ON A WICKED DAWN Is Not So Wicked!.......2006-12-05

1825, London

It's not the best book in the Cynster Series, but it's okay. The storyline started out promising with Amelia proposing to Luc, but dragged on with Luc tying to reconcile his feelings of love for Amelia. It is worth reading, though!

Incredible.......2006-11-11

One of the sexiest, more romantic books of the bar cynster. Luc and Amelia are a great couple, and their love story is overwhelming...

On a Wicked Dawn.......2006-11-10

I greatly enjoyed this book. I recently discovered the Cynster series and purchased all of the titles. They have made great reading.

On a Wicked Dawn .......2006-11-07

I used to love Stephanie Laurens books, but they have grown very boring to me and all seem to have the same plot and characteristics. I did not even finish this book - it was such a disappointment!

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Flawed, but still has it's moments
Confusion
Best of Trilogy
Not Wiesel's best work

Dawn
Elie Wiesel
Manufacturer: Hill and Wang
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ASIN: 0809037726
Release Date: 2006-03-21

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“The author…has built knowledge into artistic fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review

Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-controlled Palestine; John Dawson is the captured English officer he will murder at dawn in retribution for the British execution of a fellow freedom fighter. The night-long wait for morning and death provides Dawn, Elie Wiesel’s ever more timely novel, with its harrowingly taut, hour-by-hour narrative. Caught between the manifold horrors of the past and the troubling dilemmas of the present, Elisha wrestles with guilt, ghosts, and ultimately God as he waits for the appointed hour and his act of assassination. Dawn is an eloquent meditation on the compromises, justifications, and sacrifices that human beings make when they murder other human beings.

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Flawed, but still has it's moments.......2007-09-20

This book would have been better served as short story in an anthology. I thought there was too much padding in order to make this a "short novel". Even as a short novel, "Dawn" barely exceeds 80 pages.

To address the content of the story, the main theme is the futility of the cycle of violence and reprisal. The narrator is assigned to execute a hostage in a nationalistic conflict. The story illustrates the narrator's internal moral stuggle in carrying out his task. There are some flashbacks to the narrator's youth, which I thought used some mixed metaphors and didn't contribute much to the story. But nevertheless, these are largely interpretive to the reader.

Certainly not as good as Night, and probably some of Wiesel's other works. But someone interested in reading more Wiesel might find some value in this book.

Confusion.......2007-07-30

This book had a very slow start but as you read into it more, it got better. I did not have a very strong liking for this book because of the mindset the main character was in. He seemed to be going insane with his own thoughts and haunts of his past after he joined the Freedom Movement. Also the slow start to this book didn't have anything to catch my eye and reel me in. For people that like real life drama's and books that make you feel like your apart of the story, this is a good book for them.

Best of Trilogy.......2006-10-10

Dawn is my favorite book in Elie Wiesel's trilogy (Night, Dawn, The Accident). I believe it has the most literary value-it put me in someone else's head.

Not Wiesel's best work.......2006-07-12

Dawn, by Elie Wiesel, is an interesting character study, but not much else. The story revolves around a young Jewish man, a survivor of the Holocaust, which is only a year or so in his past, who is working as a Zionist terrorist in pre-Israel Palestine. He is new to the work, and as an initiation, of sorts, his job on the night the novel takes place is to execute a British officer being held in the basement of his building.

The entire novel takes place in one night (ending at dawn, the pivotal "moment of truth" in the novel), and in one room. The protagonist slips in and out of flashback, revealing his own dark past and the hold it has taken on him. He imagines all the people he has ever known sharing the room with him, waiting to see if he will murder the Englishman in the basement.

Wiesel's point is that we are the sum total of everything that has ever happened to us and everyone who has ever loved us or given us their time. An interesting point, to be sure. But the hallucinatory ghosts the narrator sees around him is a device that wears thin very quickly. The middle third of this very, very short novel seems like extra padding.

The book's brevity is probably its greatest asset. I read it in an afternoon, and I am a slow reader. Wiesel writes in a very spare style, with few unnecessary words, except for that middle part of the book, which was poorly paced and redundant.

Dawn is an interesting read, and a good book, but it is certainly not on par with Wiesel's other work. If you only read one of his books, read Night, which has the most meaningful things to say, and if you're still curious, you can pick up Dawn and decide for yourself.

Recommended.

Birds of Prey Vol. 3: Between Dark & Dawn

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Graphic SF Reader
Gail Simone Pens Another Winner!
The Ret-Con begins

Birds of Prey Vol. 3: Between Dark & Dawn
Gail Simone
Manufacturer: DC Comics
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ASIN: 1401209408

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Huntress goes undercover to infiltrate a religious cult with a dangerous secret and a hidden operative, while Black Canary and Oracle uncover the true nature of Sovereign Brusaws organization. It all leads to the Huntresss battle against former Justice League member Vixen! Finally, the Birds must face the aftermath of the Gotham Gang War, leading to a decision that changes the teams fate forever!

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Graphic SF Reader.......2007-09-04

This Birds of Prey trade contains stories that are a bit weaker than those that have come before, I think, and don't gel as well.

There is the undercover Huntress part, where she runs into Vixen. That is ok. Out of nowhere though, we have Brainiac interacting with Oracle, among other things.

It is still ok, just not as good as the rest.

Gail Simone Pens Another Winner!.......2006-10-08

Chuck Dixon created the mold when he delivered the first BIRDS OF PREY mini-series that later spawned a comic series that's about to pass 100 issues, and a short-lived television series that never quite found its wings. But I really think Gail Simone is the shining star of the series. She has the women's rap down, and she tech-savvy and seems to enjoy world-building, military hardware, politics, and history. All things that I gravitate to in storytelling. Simone is an absolute gem when it comes to creating captivating characterization.

In this last offering of issues rendered as a graphic novel, the Birds come into their own in many ways. Instead of the group just being Black Canary operating undercover with Barbara Gordon (Oracle) as backup, Huntress has been added in, as well as Lady Blackhawk. They work well as a group, and all of them are individuals with different triggers and goals.

This graphic novel concerns itself with a religious cult that has a surprise villain that I truly didn't see coming until X was on the page. Yet, X really fit. That's the magic that Simone brings to her work -- it's all a logical outgrowth of characters and situations. The later section of the book deals with the aftermath of the GANG WAR storyline that ran through the Bat books and ended in the loss of a major Robin-centric character that I still haven't agreed with.

As always, Ed Benes's artwork is lush and almost pure cheesecake -- except that he does action and body language and backgrounds so darn well. He's the perfect artist for a book like BIRDS OF PREY, and I hope he stays with the series forever.

If you haven't checked out a BIRDS OF PREY comic book/graphic novel and only have the television series to judge from, I'd suggest picking up any of Simone's graphic novels. Or any of Chuck Dixon's. But if you're wanting the deep emotion and women in turmoil, Gail Simone has definitely carved out territory of her own. I'm looking forward to more.

The Ret-Con begins.......2006-05-19

This is another complicated and finely woven story by author Gail Simone. This story involves BoP issues 68-75. And can be broken into four parts.

Part 1. involves the Birds investigating the disappearance of a bunch of kids. Oracle sends Huntress undercover to a cult in the woods of Oregon to investigate. While there she meets up with another undercover operative by the name of Vixen who is there to help her. Once again my biggest problem with this book comes down to Gail Simone's portrayal of Huntress. I am not certain whether Gail did her homework on Huntress or simply decided to arbitrarily ignore all the ground work laid out by other others such as Greg Rucka, Chuck Dixon and even Jeph Loeb did with her. But whatever the case, this is not the same Huntress. It's as if the character has been twisted and changed in order to suit the story the author wants to tell.

In the last book, Sensei & Student we saw Huntress--- a character who had previously portrayed as somewhat aloof proud and uptight---now reduced to a wanton who was predisposed to having sex with a man who just treated her abominably.

Now in this story we see a character,who had previously been portrayed as such a devout Catholic. That she incorporated the cross into her costume and took the time to pray for six slaughtered men. Now professing her discomfort with Churches, And who claims that she doesn't know the distinction between cults and churches! And Huntress' anger throughout the entire story is a real turn off. Gail Simone has made no secret of being an atheist and it's as if she's taken her own prejudices and foisted it onto the character.

Part 2. A subplot involving Oracle being taken over by Braniac, which is very interesting.

Part 3. A surprising stand alone story involving Canary finally confronting Savant, the man who kidnapped and humiliated her in the TPB `Of Like Minds'. I actually liked this story and consider it probably the best story that Gail has written. Because Canary is actually portrayed as a bit more human, and less `Pollyanaish' than she usually is. The story showed a woman who was suffered anger and resentment. Which would not be out of the norm considering what Savant had done to her.

Part 4. Involves a turning point for the Birds. Where after her clock tower being blown up and a fight with Batman. Oracle decides to re-locate to Metropolis. There is also a formal invitation for Huntress to join the team. And the introduction of a new character.

That being said. This probably is my favourite BoP arc, because of the darkness and intrigue.

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"a refreshing Story that is as important today as it was in 1977"
Interesting Begining...
Best Manga I've read thus far
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An Elegant Space Opera

To Terra...Volume 1
Keiko Takemiya
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ASIN: 1932234675
Release Date: 2007-02-20

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The future. Having driven Terra to the brink of environmental collapse, humanity decides to reform itself by ushering in the age of Superior Domination (S.D.), a system of social control in which children are no longer the offspring of parents but progeny of a universal computer. The new social order, however, results in an unexpected byproduct: the Mu, a mutant race with extrasensory powers who are forced in exile by The System.

The saga begins on educational planet Ataraxia, where Jomy Marcus Shin, a brash and unpredictable teenager, is nervously preparing to enter adult society. When his Maturity Check goes wrong, the Mu intervene in the great hope that Jomy, who possesses Mu telepathy and human physical strength, can lead them back home, to Terra...

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"a refreshing Story that is as important today as it was in 1977".......2007-09-09

"To Terra..." is a refreshing Story that is as important today as it was in 1977. The Art is unique, creative and genuinely epic. It's narrative is well developed, mature and really does an excellent job of developing multiple characters in grand design.
A worthy piece of Sci-Fi Manga that speaks in a prophetical manner.

Interesting Begining..........2007-08-18

I have never read sci-fi manga before..but that's not really the point of the series....it's just the setting. I rate this volume on the threshold of reading the third volume. There's a lot of introspection in this first volume and lots of set up. But you have to set the stage so it's a vital part of enjoying what is to come even if it's not as enjoyable as when the ball gets rolling. however. i highly recommend this manga, it deals with concepts that are above your typical manga fare. there are no girls in school uniforms or boys fighting little monsters here. The drawing is very beautiful,...but not as forceful as the intensity of the story may dictate. hang in there for volume 2!! it's completely worth it!

Best Manga I've read thus far.......2007-04-26

I got into Manga with Shonen Jump where one of my favorite's is Hikaru No Go (A Manga based around the board game GO, the same author also wrote Death Note...another good Manga). I've also read Dragon Ball and a number of the other serialized Jump Manga. I picked up To Terra on the recommendation/review of the Geek Nights podcast[...]

All that being said, this is by far the best Manga I've read to date. It goes into far more depth than any of the Shonen Manga will ever go and while they are entertaining To Terra just feels more well rounded and gives a much more solid read. The artwork is fantastic...particularly for a 20+ year old Manga. I guess if you can draw...well...then you can draw!

By all means pick this manga up if you enjoy a good storyline and good artwork which is pretty much the point isn't it?

Great story so far!.......2007-04-11

A very compelling story that's told at a comfortable pace about two sides of a civilization that has been forced to leave Earth (Terra) and one side of that civilization finding the chosen one to lead them back to a world that they were banished from. This has very good art all throughout all though many of the male characters look feminine at times.

I haven't read too many manga translated into English, but this was by far the easiest to read. I was able to fly through this and I can't wait for Volume 2!!

An Elegant Space Opera.......2007-03-08

With the manga boom tapering off, publishers are generally following two rules when it comes to licenses: nothing more than a few years old and nothing really long. Classic manga artist Keiko Takemiya's To Terra is over thirty years old, so its a minor miracle that we are seeing its first English edition. Although I was introduced to the artist through the more modern Clan of the Heavenly Horse, its easy to see from To Terra why Takemiya's work is considered a classic of the shojo genre. It's elegant, thought-provoking, and emotional.
Far in the future, Earth was nearly destroyed by human activities. For the planet to survive, human kind became strictly regulated by psychic, super computers that constantly monitor people's emotional state and decide their fates. Children are grown in labs, and kept segregated from adult society. Their foster parents are carefully selected to guide them through childhood. However, when they reach age 14, the computer gives them a maturity check that wipes away all their memories to remold them into model citizens of Terra, the home planet that only a chosen few ever get to set foot upon. To Terra follows to very different boys, trying to find there way if this hostile society.
Jomy Marcus Shin thought he was a normal boy. Secretly, he fears the maturity check, which is akin to an act of treason. He discovers that he is Mu, a physically frail, emotional race with ESP powers. The government wants him terminated as the Mu are not allowed to live. However, he is saved by a gang of Mu lead by Soldier Blue. And so begins his life among the Mu as they journey towards Terra.
Keith Anyan is a student at the adult re-education space station to prepare him for adult life as a Terran elite. He is not like the other young people. The Mother Computer rarely needs to even out his thoughts, and most troubling of all to Keith is that he can not remember his maturity check, something everyone else can. When one of his classmates becomes a Mu, Keith learns many shocking secrets about himself and the plans the Mother Computer has for him on Terra.
With the lives of the two set to intersect, will Jomy and Keith find themselves allies or enemies? Is Terra the promised land everyone thinks it is? I can't wait to find out.

Kizuna 8: Bonds of Love (Kizuna; Bonds of Love)

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Just keeps getting better
A deeply meaningful volume! Kizuna continues to amaze.

Kizuna 8: Bonds of Love (Kizuna; Bonds of Love)
Kazuma Kodaka
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ASIN: 1933440155

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"A romantic epic."- The Village Voice

"A fun series with some pretty graphic sex scenes."-BoysOnBoysOnFilm.com

"It's pretty fun."-DestroyAllMonsters.com

Romantic tensions threaten to boil over as the Kyoto honeymoon adventure continues! First, Kai is unrelenting in his quest to get some "alone time" with Masa, but the burly bodyguard spurns Kai's advances for reasons unknown. Meanwhile, the newlyweds Ranmaru and Kei take every opportunity to consummate their love during the holiday retreat, and the sights and sounds of their coupling only serve to drive Kai deeper into despair. Will a frustrated Kai be able to make his wish come true?

Kizuna-Bonds of Love 1-7 are available in our Recent & Recommended and backlist catalog sections.

Kazuma Kodaka began her career drawing action and crime manga under a male pen name, but soon became a pioneer in the fledgling yaoi genre. Kizuna remains one of the most recognizable yaoi, and Kodaka's work has been published in several countries, earning her legion of fans across the globe. Kodaka recently traveled to New York and San Francisco to meet her American fans for the first time.

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Just keeps getting better.......2007-06-27

If you are a Kizuna fan, then you know what I am talking about when I say that this story line just keeps getting better. I am happy that she is finally giving us more on the romance between Masa and Kai. I have been waiting on that couple for a while. It is a bit angsty but getting there. I totally recomend it.

A deeply meaningful volume! Kizuna continues to amaze........2007-05-02

Compared to Vol 7, erotic sex has somewhat toned down in Vol 8. But for us fans, sex is no longer "a must" in Kizuna. Volume 8 is about overcoming one's haunted pasts and it is beautifully written as Ran and Kai are forced to face their ghosts. Ran has been quietly debating to take up Kendo again, a sport he loves but is forced to give up due to an accident which left him half paralyzed years ago. Kai is haunted by his own rape during his captivity years ago, a scar which suddenly surfaces while Masa tries to make love to him. This scene is all the more touching when Kai realizes his own terrible action upon Ran (Vol 1 remember?). Kai's remorse, Ran's comforting words and Kei's quiet eavesdropping is my favorite scene in this volume.
So how do Ran and Kai conquer their demons ? By challenging each other in Kendo, of course. And I do salute Kodaka for her remarkable story telling skill in this.
Love is certainly not lacking in this volume. Far from it. Ran and Kei is such a loving couple. Kei is certainly Ran's anchor from the moment Ran decides to take up Kendo again till the end of the fight. And Masa's pain as he realizes Kai's hidden scar is a most touching moment.
This is a most stirring and meaningful volume. And I hope bebeautiful will give us the remaining 2 volumes this year. Sadly the Japanese tankoubon is only up to Vol 10 as the brilliant Kodaka does tend to drag her feet.

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Dawn Powell at her best
The Highest Art is Life
Simply gorgeous.
An unforgettable read
Excellent Book

Come Back to Sorrento
Dawn Powell
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ASIN: 1883642264
Release Date: 1998-06-01

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ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED as The Tenth Moon, Come Back to Sorrento is the second of Powell’s "Ohio novels" to be re-issued in paperback. Here Powell turns her attention to those certain rare souls who have the secret of finding their lives glamorous and themselves magnificent under the most humble conditions. Connie Benjamin, the village shoemaker’s wife, always wanted an operatic career. Blaine Decker, the new high school music teacher, once spent time abroad studying piano. The two are drawn together into a powerful friendship of dependence, each sustaining the other and translating the surface monotony of their lives into drama richer than reality.

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Dawn Powell at her best.......2003-01-14

Dawn Powell's "Come Back to Sorrento", was published in 1932 under the title "The Tenth Moon" to little notice from critics or from the public. But this poignant, mostly understated novel set in a drab midwestern town called Dell River is a gem.

The two main characters in the book are Connie Benjamin and Blaine Decker. When we meet Connie as a housewife in her mid-thirties, she is leading a life she finds sterile and barren with her husband Gus, a cobbler, and her two adolescent daughters. As a young woman, Connie had visions of a career as an opera singer, even though this ambition seemed to be based on little more than a commendation of her voice by a famous teacher. Connie also has a past in which she ran off with a young man named Tony who did acrobatics with a circus. Tony aboandoned her, and Connie lives with dreams of a singing career that perhaps could have been and with faded memories of Tony.

Blaine Decker comes to Dell River as the high school music teacher. He rents a small apartment above Gus Decker's shoe repair shop. Decker is a pianist by training (with small hands) who likewise has never had the artistic success of which he dreams. He spent his early years in Europe during which time he was a friend of a writer, Starr Donnell, who had written, as far as Decker knows, one novel. Powell hints throughout the novel at Decker's repressed homosexuality.

The novel explores the relationship that develops between Connie and Blaine. With their shared love of music and their broken, and probably illusory dreams, they feel stifled by the small town of Dell River. They share confidences with each other and at the same time quarrel severely with each other over their respective failures to pursue their dreams. The relationship is at bottom frustrating and unconsummated. It never becomes sexual.

There are wonderful pictures in this book of music and its capacity to bring meaning to life. The seriousness with which Powell discusses the pursuit of classical music in this work contrasts markedly with her picture of frivolous people and activities in her subsequent satirical New York novels. Powell also shows how music can be a means by which people evade their own selves and their own reality. There are also good depictions in the book of life in a small town, particularly those people who teach in High Schools, and of many secondary characters.

As do Powell's latter works, this book contrasts life in a small town with life in the cosmopolitian city, here represented by Paris more than by New York. But there is a certain inward focus to this book which is not shared by her latter satirical pictures of New York. The characters here are limited by Dell River and its environs, but their problems and discontents lie within themselves, in their lack of self-knowledge, and in their failed dreams. The book lacks the sharp cynicism of the latter novels but features instead reflectiveness and sadness.

Powell's writing style in this novel is rather flatter than in her subsequent works but it fits the atmosphere of Dell River that she conveys. There are several moments in the novel or lyricism and intensity.

This probably is not a novel that will ever enjoy wide readership. But it is rare and a treasure.

The Highest Art is Life.......2002-05-23

What a haiku evokes beyond the language, a few words summon a large panorama, Dawn Powell did in this novella. With artful simplicity, the author relates a somewhat comic and somewhat cosmic fable of two lost souls that blend unrealized dreams into reality. Powell writes with the sensitivity of an empath. In the bearly visible twitch, the eye that cannot contact, the unconscious hesitations belie the character's pretense so that the secret is just between Powell and her reader. In the far less precise language of psychiatry, this is termed the "as if" self. This deceptively simple story succeeds as myth for within the doubling up of solitary dreams, their souls sweep the cosmos.

Shards of memories, are picked from the realities that defeated them and together they build a palace of dignity that not only holds at bay, their individual sufferings, but becomes wide enough to bring a muted sort of redemption to others, afflicted with similar destinies.
Through music and desire, (platonic, alone) a middle aged housewife, and a odd and tattered music teacher shake off fate and taste, if briefly, what they had been denied. Woven in the tale, is the past of childhood trauma and rejection, abandonment and 'making do,' that the odd duo become nothing less than extraordinary people who choose happiness and get it. In this it is a morality tale, par excellance.
Anyone who has ever reached out of despair with a rebound of delight, who has taken an old piece of cloth and thrown it in some transforming wrap over their head, or around their waist, as Connie does, remembers that triumph, so rare, but perfect brilliant touch. Suddenly, an old dress, has color and shape, bohemians, they are beyond the ordinary in fashion and finance.

There are no authorial statements here, Powell has her own transformative power, whereby sentences do indeed show, voluminously what she composed sparingly. Her genious for showing human instincts is beyond any of her peers. Perhaps the most stunning is her instinct for understanding that ancient animal survival rule whereby we must hide our wounds and primal sufferings or risk in discovery- annihilation. There is none of the confessional self-absorption that was the legacy of the psychoanalytic fever, that was in its American childhood at the time she wrote the novel.

Anyone who has suffered and not hurt others, is rare indeed. The sublime experience between the two does not rely on inflicting pain upon others, a far more common means of elevating conditions of esteem.
The message, if I may, is in the true artistic gift that they benefitted from, but if spoken, would have broken the spell. They saw the Touilleries in an unweeded garden, the Volga in a brown shallow river, and in the unattractive, uncultured, midwestern town, they found a quaint village to delight in.

The physical conditions of life bore down upon their paradise and yet Connie and Blaine, prevailed, looking we are told through colored pains of glass, bringing the grey, unsympathetic world into prismmatic shimmering color.

It is a love poem to the artistic process that is a gift for life as much as technique with a brush or an instrument or a sentence. This contrasts effectively with her more cynical tales of the corrupted artist and the exploited audience.

A glorious book.

Simply gorgeous........1999-10-15

Only Dawn Powell could create such an intimate, sorrowful portrayal of two thwarted artists in a smug little town that doesn't recognize their intelligence. Very sad, yet gently funny as well. Dawn Powell apparently didn't think this was one of her more successful books. It always amazes me how poorly some artists judge their work for this is one of her best novels. Read it and weep.

An unforgettable read.......1999-02-02

This book has been well-summarized by the other reviewers. I can only second their recommendations and say that this book is spellbindingly written and contains two extended passages (I will leave it to other readers to find their own favorite parts)that are among the most brilliant writing I have ever encountered. Just be warned that it will break your heart. Now if only Steerforth would reissue her "Story of a Country Boy" which I just found an ancient copy of and which is just as good...

Excellent Book.......1999-01-26

This is an extremely well written book. It is the story of a housewife and the local high school Music teacher. Both of whom live in their pasts, which they have embellished to the point of unrecognition. This is what binds them together as they create their "salon". I love Dawn Powell and her real forte is creating these amazing character studies that are both hilarious and pathetic. I would highly recommend this book and any other of Dawn Powell's works

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Excellent
EXCELLENT, EASY READ
Excellent tale set in 3158BC
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Dawn Of Empire - Wow!

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Brethren: An Epic Adventure of the Knights Templar
The Afghan Campaign: A Novel

ASIN: 0060892447
Release Date: 2006-08-29

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The leader of a band of marauding barbarians, Thutmose-sin is a warrior gifted by the gods with extraordinary perception and cunning. To survive, he and his people plunder and pillage, killing and enslaving the dirt-eaters who dwell in villages across the plains. But Thutmose-sin also secretly fears these enemies, for they possess a weapon far deadlier than any bow or lance: the food they coax from the ground that allows them to multiply. Someday, he worries, there might be so many of them that even his warriors will not be able to kill them all. And in a prosperous settlement near the headwaters of the Tigris, his suspicions are about to come true . . .

Determined to preserve their way of life, the peaceful people of Orak refuse to flee the oncoming barbarians. Instead, they devise a bold, untested plan of defense: build a wall around the village high and strong enough to repel the invaders. Under the guidance of an outcast barbarian named Eskkar and his true love, an enchanting and wise slave girl named Trella, the villagers begin the wall's construction and await the epic battle that will pit them against the unstoppable barbarians—a battle whose outcome will change the world forever.

An enthralling historical novel of war, passionate love, courage, and savagery, Dawn of Empire tells in sweeping prose and with heroic, unforgettable characters the story of an ancient people's triumph—an amazing feat that marked the building of the first walled city and the beginning of an era that gave rise to some of history's greatest civilizations.

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Excellent.......2007-09-06

This was a fine combination of "Guns,Germs, & Steel" and Dungeons & Dragons.

I couldn't put it down.

EXCELLENT, EASY READ.......2007-09-03

I loved it, and how Mr. Barone made the woman so strong and heroic. I really couldn't put it down.

Excellent tale set in 3158BC.......2007-07-08

I love historical fiction, but wanted a change from Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and saw this potential gem and thought it had a promising angle being set in 3158BC. I must say it turned into a thoroughly enjoyable read. There are some novels you can gauge as having an impact on your psyche by virtue of the way they leave you wanting more when you finish them and put them back on the shelf. This is one of those.

It takes place at a turning point in our history where settlers (farmers, villagers etc) choose to make a stand against the roaming hordes of nomadic raiders. Always the outcome is defeat. The raiders in having the fighting power. The settlers always at their mercy. But this time its different. The village of Orac with 5 months of advance warning and the right man (Eskkar) to lead them will raise an army and a wall and with the right preparation - it hopes to succeed where no village has succeeded before - defeat the Alur Mereki tribesman. Eskkar is unique in the village in that he was born an Alur Mereki though his family fell out of favour and he survived to later seek revenge. This conflict gives him the chance to shrug off his "Barbarian" cloak and gain power and respect from the people of Orak who previously shunned him. When the Noble "Nicar" gives him the gift of a slave girl called "Trella", Eskkar finds a most worthy and intellectual partner to assist him in organising both his battle plans and his status among the people to a point where his future as their leader can become a reality.

The book has it all. Its splendidly researched. Well thought out, never a dull patch, Sam Barone paints with words so you feel you see the world he describes such is his elegant prose. His characters are memorable and you feel they are living and breathing beings as you read and follow their lives and not shallow representations of what people at that time would have been. Theres politics, power broking, the need to motivate others through fear, favour or reward, backstabbing, loyalty, action, revenge, honor, love etc etc.

The dialogue is flowing and the interaction between characters inspiring...theres humor, wisdom, doubt, everything that you would expect be it from a Barbarian warrior or those of the village of Orac as their moment of calling approaches. You will love the characters and feel the emotion of that culminates into the final battle where each man and woman depends on the other to survive.

If only our own leaders were as wise and efficient as Eskkar and Trella.

Did I find any flaws? Some reviewers say the plot leads the reader to know early on who the likely outcome wil favour. My answer..so what! I read Cleopatras Memoirs by Margaret George (all 1000 pages) and I knew she would commit suicide by Asp in the end but it was the quality of the writing that made me read it till the end. Loved that book still. Loved this book also. And its not just about building a wall in time to save your village from roaming Barbarian hordes - its much richer and complex a story than that.

Absolutely terriffic story. Highly recommended. Thanks Mr Barone - its a great novel let alone great Debut.

Trella for Ruler of the Universe.......2007-06-13

For a first timer this is quite good although it reads a little like a video game transformed to prose (lol). OK, the plot ploys are a little obvious and our long-ago ancestors seem remarkably modern in certain views but overall it was a cativating read, enhanced by story line simplicity. In a prequel (10 years in the pas), a barbarian king leads his roving band as they routinely pillage the villages of the "dirt eater" (farmers) for slaves and booty. He fears the dramatically increasing population due to agriculture; before long they will be overwhelmend. He razes Orak, a small village, tortures some, slaughters others and enslaves the rest. Now, ten years later, the real story begins.

The devastated village has become a prosperous town with politics, priests, trade and that hallmark of civilized people - specialization. Bakers, farmers, masons, metal workers, doctors - this modern concept allows a great increase in wealth. It is learned that the barbarians are again on their way to again destory the village. A town elder calls on Eskkar, a former barbarian who fled, as to whether it is possible to resist the barbarians. He finally says "yes" and receives a slave girl, Trella, daughter of a nobleman and wise in the ways of the world. Their bond and love (rather 20th century) drive the tale forward.

The rest of the story is straight forward, the preparation for battle (making weapons, training farmers as soldiers, building a giant wall, raiding parties, etc and the battle itself. There is even an exciting spy mission behind enemy lines with our hero operating in almost James Bond mode. Dirty politics, power grabs, human emotions - all inevitable rise to the surface but Eskkar and Trella handle them with aplomb as they gather support and gratitude. The barbarians attack and the reader almost cheers when all the hard work pays off (barely).

Eskkar is now thinking of uniting the smaller tribes into one large empire (thus the name) with he and Trella as top dogs and dogette. The action was quite video like (only thing missing is "BOOM" or "SLASH") but the story managed to survive almost fully in tact. My grade - A

Dawn Of Empire - Wow!.......2007-04-30

I am an avid reader of good historical and good adventure fiction, and this book had it all: intrigue, 'good winning over evil,' interesting historical setting, two strong and worthy heros (male and female) (versus too many characters in some historical books), plenty of action, some hot romance, and lots to learn along the way (about two cultures, the history of early civilization, life in early Mesopotamia, etc.).
The March 28, 2007 Amazon reviewer Water Walker does a great job of honoring this book.
I put it right up there with other of my historical adventure favorites like Jean Auel's "Clan of the Cave Bear;" "Dreaming the Eagle" (a story of Boudica) by Manda Scott;" "The Light Bearer" by Donna Gillespie; "The Skystone" series by Jack Whyte; "Shogun" by James Clavell; "Musashi" by Eiji Yoshikawa; "Tikal" and other books on ancient civilizations by Daniel Peters; and almost any book by Morgan Llywelyn, such as "Lion of Ireland" or "Grania;" and Louis L'Amour's "Walking Drum."
Can't wait to read the sequel Sam!

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Dawn Rochelle Novels
veryyyyyyyyyy good book
Dawn Rochelle Series
To live again
KJ from IL.

To Live Again (Dawn Rochelle Novels)
Lurlene Mcdaniel
Manufacturer: Laurel Leaf
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0553571516
Release Date: 2001-04-10

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Dawn Rochelle looks like any other 17year-old girt, but looks can be deceiving. At the age of 13, Dawn was diagnosed with leukemia. Now almost five years into remission, Dawn's a senior in high school and looking forward to going to college. But her plans are disrupted when she suffers another medical crisis that causes partial paralysis. The doctors are optimistic about her recovery, but Dawn finds herself giving in to despair. At least during remission she could try to forget about her cancer and pretend she was a normal girl. But the effects of the paralysis are impossible to hide from her friends and the boy she cares about. Dawn had thought her bad times were over. Will she be able to find the strength and courage to live again?

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Dawn Rochelle Novels.......2007-09-23

I love the Dawn Rochelle novels. I love how the author goes into good detail.

veryyyyyyyyyy good book.......2006-12-06

The Dawn Rochelle books were very good books. I was touched by this book because i had a firend in 2 grade that died from cancer. And it helped me through it.

Dawn Rochelle Series.......2006-07-16

I loved the first 4 novels by LM in the Dawn Rochelle Series. I thought that they were original and awesome! But in the 5th DR series novel, "To Live Again" I was highly dissapointed. Since the DR series was at first just 4 books, and the 5th was written years later, you find yourself thinking "This isn't the Dawn we know!!!" Dawn seems to have a different attitude, like a different person, and a less likable one at that. The different obstacles Dawn go through are boring, and rather stupid. I found the book to put a damper on the whole series. In my opinion, if you read the DR series, just stop at the 4th one, and skip the 5th.

To live again.......2006-02-10

To Live Again By Megha

To live Again by Lurlence Mc Daniel's is an amazing story. Dawn the main character in this book was diagnosed with leukemia when she was thirteen and had a stroke at the age of seventeen. It was lunch time when her left arm felt heavy and she collapsed on to the ground in front of everyone. Then all of a sudden she was rushed to the hospital. Dawn had a stroke and lost many brain cells and it would be hard for her to recover. She worked with many therapists to help her fully recover. Her favorite therapist was Haley; she helped Dawn stand and walk. Dawn was in her senior year of high school and wanted to go to collage. Also she wanted to graduate with her class but it would take a lot of hard work because she had to recover. Dawn was determined to graduate on time so she got a tutor to help her with her classes. Dawn finally caught up with the two grading periods she missed. Then Dawn was finally well enough to go back to school. Everyone was really nice to her and welcomed her back. Especial her friends Jake and Rhonda. Jake is one of Dawn's friends and she had liked Jake for along time. Rhonda is one of Dawns really good friends who helped her with her books and drives her home. Tasha is one of Jake's friends Tasha also likes Jake. Tasha's Brother Brad got into a serious motorcycle accident and is in critical condition. In the end Jake asks Dawn to the prom and Dawn with hard work graduates on time.
I think this book was very exciting to read because Dawn was in critical condition and was always working hard to get better. I felt like I was in the book because of the way the author described what Dawn was going through. I thought the main conflict was very interesting because some people don't fully recover from strokes so I wanted to know if Dawn would or not. I think all the characters in this book seemed real because of the medical conditions that were in the book. Also because of all the people that helped Dawn because there are people who want to help others. I think the ending of this book was amazing. I think this because Dawn overcame everything that was against her.
I think the author's voice was someone watching everything going on and reporting it. The author used a wide range of vocabulary also the vocabulary was very descriptive. The author made you feel and experience what Dawn was going through which I really liked. The author used dialogue and tone well also was very descriptive. I really liked the authors writing style.
I would rate this book a ten out of ten because I think it was amazing. I would recommend this book to anyone who is looking for an inspiring story, short book and a great read. Compared to other books I have read it is really great and one of my favorites.
From this book I learned many things I learned alot about strokes. I learned that to always believe in your self, you need to work hard to get in places in life and life isn't easy. I really liked how Dawn always believed in her self and never gave up. Dawn has been through some up having some much experience losing a loved one she helped Tasha get over her Brother. With out Dawn Tasha would have never realized that she has to move on with her life. Read To Live Again by Lurlence Mc Daniel.

KJ from IL........2005-12-08

Dawn Rochelle has been in remission for almost 4 years after her battle with leukemia. She has overcome Chemotherapy, infections, and a bone marrow transplant. she is a senior in high school, lost and made more friends than she can count. But one day something happens that brings Dawn's hopes and dreams to a screeching halt she can't move her left side at all it is a useless lump she can't talk, read, write, or even walk. She can only think, think about her family and friends. Dawn has had a stroke that has killed brains cells so she is paralyzed temporally on the left side. Now dawn must think and work very hard to accomplish the simplest of tasks. Dawn is giving up knowing she is hopeless. One night why lying in bed in the dead of the night she is visited by a very special friend. Long after visiting hours have passed and her family has gone home. This special friend gives her strength and courage to fight threw her battles. Can Dawn find the strength to get her old life back and walk with her graduating class in June or will she fall to the mercy of even more tragedies? Read To live again to find out. This book is realistic fiction. This book takes place in ohio.
I would recommend this book to anyone who loves a good cry. Any girl from the ages of 12-112 would like this book. There is a warning to this book if you have a soft heart have o tissue box handy you will cry. You may cry and you may cheer but you will not know what is going to happen next; this author is always throwing curve balls at you so be prepared. What makes this book such a topper is it makes you think about what you have and what you might do if you where to loose all abilities except thinking. It makes you wonder if you could count on your friends and family to help you every minute of every day. It makes you feel even lucky that you can do the simplest tasks without thinking and not having to have special care. well at least it did for me. So if you like a page turner and a good cry this book is for you.

Green Lantern: Emerald Twilight & A New Dawn

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Darth Jordan
Half and half
this is a half good, half bad book
Bold Step... But Should Have Been Longer!
Why all the outrage people?

Green Lantern: Emerald Twilight & A New Dawn
Ron Marz
Manufacturer: DC Comics
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Customer Reviews:

Darth Jordan.......2007-02-04

I highly recomend this book to any Green Lantern fan who's wondered what happened when Hal Jordan became Parralax. It's one of the most gripping things I've ever seen in a trade paperback.

Half and half.......2006-08-03

Back in the early 90's, DC was on a rampage. In an effort to become "edgier" and get new readers, DC went on a hero killing spree. Superman was killed by Doomsday (and later resurrected), Batman would be crippled by Bane, and this storyline, which surprisingly coaxed more groans out of fanboys than the previous two put together, found silver age Green Lantern Hal Jordan going crazy, killing his fellow Lanterns, stealing their powers, and becoming an omnipotent super villain called Paralax. Eventually, in the Zero Hour and Final Night arcs, Hal would come to his senses and sacrifice himself to save the world, but Emerald Twilight showcases the hero's fall from grace as his hometown of Coast City and everyone in it are wiped off the map, and he attempts to use the power of the Lanterns to bring it all back, even if he has to kill everyone in his way. As A New Dawn opens up, slacker artist Kyle Rayner becomes the new GL, and goes toe to toe with Major Force. Now here's the thing, writer Ron Marz was given the task of replacing Hal with a new, younger and hipper hero to take on the GL mantle, and for the most part, he does a good job illustrating Hal's fall. It's his characterization of Rayner which hurts this TPB (personally, I wouldn't be cracking jokes moments after I find my girlfriend dead in the fridge) as he is too immature for his own good. Fans hated Rayner through the years, but as the years went on, he became a very well written character, even better than GL's John Stewart and Guy Gardner. Though this TPB has no real conclusion (you'll have to check out Zero Hour and the Final Night to see how it all ends), Hal would be resurrected and become the Green Lantern once again when fan favorite writer Geoff Johns launched the Green Lantern: Rebirth mini-series, which made everything happening here more sensical, and one of the finest resurrections in all of comicdom.

this is a half good, half bad book.......2005-03-21

the first Half is not very good and really to be honest is very bad, we have a hero who has been around since the silver age of comics turned into a killer who makes the joker look sane, all done in the space of 3 issues in a rushed editoral mandated story line, there is no reason for Hal to go nuts even, all his cloest friends and even his girlfriend was not even in the city when it blew.

but on the plus side you have Kyle, he gets more room, he's the new guy DC wanted, it's kind of like spider-man in a lot of ways for the DC universe, he gets this power, has no idea what to do, makes mistakes aned people he loves will pay for it, but it's good, problem is it's also short, just as he starts to really get going it ends, his rookie years would continue for another 100 issues or so.

there are many betetr green lantern trades to check out, but if you need to see jordons fall or kyles start then get it.

Bold Step... But Should Have Been Longer!.......2004-02-15

"Emerald Twilight/New Dawn". This book reads like a weird nightmare. Everything is so crazy that it's almost unreal - like something in the back of your mind telling you that this just can't be happening!

DC Comics took one real bold step with Hal Jordan in the early 1990s. They made him crazy and evil. Ever since the 1985-6 "Crisis on Infinite Earths", they have been killing off the Silver Age heroes and replacing them with new versions. Barry Allen was replaced by Wally West, Oliver Queen was replaced by Connor Hawke, Superman was (temporarily) replaced by FOUR new versions of the character (don't ask!), Batman was (also temporarily) replaced by Azrael and later Dick Grayson and finally Hal Jordan was replaced by Kyle Rayner (of which the tale is told in this volume).

The most controversial of all the "replacements" and "revamps" was the Hal Jordan-Kyle Rayner thing. You see, all the other replacement were either temporary (Supes, Bats and even Green Arrow is now back) or the original died heroically (as in the case of Barry Allen). With Green Lantern, sales was so low that they needed a really HUGE event to shake things up - so they had Hal Jordan go crazy, slaughter all the other GLs, the Guardians, destroyed Oa and become a super-powerful cosmic villain called Parallax. Ron Marz, the original scripter of these tales (he's not the one really responsible for the whole thing - it was an editorial decision!), have been receiving death threats and insults from fans (mostly unreasonable) ever since. My reaction is like that of the other reviewer - WHY THE EXTREME REACTION?

Granted, I like Hal Jordan a whole lot! Look, I even created an Amazon List on everything Hal! And after reading the recent Mark Waid penned "The Brave and the Bold" TPB, I too wished that Hal Jordan is still Green Lantern. But then, I like the evolution of the character even more. And I like the idea of Hal Jordan as Parallax (and now as the new Spectre). In short, I like change. And finally, I'm beginning to like the new GL, Kyle Rayner, a whole lot too.

Now to the stories in this volume. They were previously collected in TWO separate volumes - "Emerald Twilight" and "A New Dawn". DC recently rereleased the two stories in one volume along with the "Emerald Dawn" and "The Road Back" volumes to form a series with a similar cover-design. Therefore, this current volume consist of issues 48 to 55 of the Green Lantern comics and includes an Afterword by Ron Marz. I rather enjoy the reading the story in one sitting (although I'd recommend reading "The Return of Superman" TPB before this one to understand the background behind Hal's descent into madness). My only complain is that they should have made the "Emerald Twilight" story longer. It was a major milestone in a character's life and he only had THREE ISSUES? Then you have FIVE ISSUES of melodrama and soap opera with Kyle Rayner discovering his new powers as the new GL? The whole collection feels rather uneven because of this. The pacing for the first part is too fast and too crammed and the later part is too loose.

Ron Marz's writing is passable and Kyle Rayner is still largely undeveloped in this volume. Get "Baptism of Fire" (the next volume) to see how Marz develops this new GL. The artwork is overall very good - especially the chapters by Darryl Banks and Bill Willingham. Finally, it's always great seeing another appearance by Alan Scott, the original Golden Age GL, giving some pointers to the new GL! This is an important milestone in the history of Green Lantern (possibly the most important in recent decades) and I'd recommend it seriously for everyone interested in the evolution of the GL mythos.

Why all the outrage people?.......2003-10-24

Lets face it, as progressive as comic books may be, there is no fan base on this planet more adverse to change then comic book fans. Trust me, I know, I'm one of them. Hal Jordan was my favorite hero when I was growing up. As a young child, the Green Lantern action figure was my favorite, and the few comic books I had of that day included several of his. Years passed and my comic book focus was lost for several years. The death and rebirth of Superman managed to drag me back in. A related event to Superman's rebirth was the destruction of Coast City, Hal Jordan's home. This was the moment that I had to get back in to the Green Lantern series. I had to see how my childhood hero would react to such a loss. The writers at DC took him in an unexpected and incredibly bold direction....Insanity. Hal Jordan lost his place, and in his rage and misery managed to destroy all that he held dear to him. He turned his back on heroics and spent the next few years as a villian, taking the name Parallax.
Well, most people out there cryed out and screamed and wailed and said "If Hal isn't going to be Green Lantern anymore I'm not going to read this book anymore". Well that's just petty. Like the passing of the role of James Bond, the passing of the Green Lantern ring to Kyle Rayner was a bold and innovative choice. We got to watch someone else grow into the role, someone who, in my mind, has managed to tell as grand a tale as any Hal could write up. I stand by DC's decision and they're story making ablities. Emerald Twilight is one of the greatest comics I have ever read. Hands down.

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Candid, tough, sensitive writing.

The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965
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Dawn Powell has often been overlooked since her death at 67 in 1965, but her brilliant novels, such as Angels On Toast, A Time to Be Born and The Wicked Pavilion are returning to print. And to accompany her rediscovery, The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965 presents a wondrous evocation of the writing life. More than mere diaries, Powell's journals are at times a workbook presenting many fully-formed narratives. There are thoughtful pieces about why she feels compelled to write and gripes about how writers live. And scattered throughout are witty and gossipy essays about living in literary New York and socializing and working with such characters as Edmund Wilson, John Dos Passos, her editor Max Perkins, and the woman to whom she was often unfairly compared,Dorothy Parker.

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One of the outstanding literary finds of the last quarter century. --The New York Times Book Review

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Candid, tough, sensitive writing........1998-08-28

Thank you, Steerforth & Tim Page (and Gore Vidal) for making the work of Dawn Powell available. Of all her books, I like the diaries the best--so candid, such a grown-up view of the world; her comments on writing, the New York literary world, and the gritty beauty and ugliness of New York are always acute. Her grasp of the complexity of relationships is amazing-her comments about her husband Joe, her sweetheart, and her child are poignant reminders that life need not be perfect to be rich. Here is the voice of a remarkable woman, one of the most clear-eyed American writers of the twentieth-century. She captures a particular New York moment as does no other writer, and that's saying something.

I am somehow reminded of another great writer, another unsentimental woman: Natalia Ginzburg. An Italian, her work and Powell's are very different, yet they share a rare candor and stoicism.

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