
Turn, Magic Wheel
Dawn Powell(Author)
Steerforth Press
Published on 1. January 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-883642-72-3 (ISBN)
Description
Dennis Orphen, in writing a novel, has stolen the life story of his friend, Effie Callingham, the former wife of a famous, Hemingway-like novelist, Andrew Callingham. Orphen's betrayal is not the only one, nor the worst one, in this hilarious satire of the New York literary scene. (Powell personally considered this to be her best New York novel.) Powell takes revenge here on all publishers, and her baffoonish MacTweed is a comic invention worthy of Dickens. And as always in Powell's New York novels, the city itself becomes a central character: "On the glittering black pavement legs hurried by with umbrella tops, taxis skidded along the curb, their wheels swishing through the puddles, raindrops bounced like dice in the gutter." Powell's famous wit was never sharper than here, but Turn, Magic Wheel is also one of the most poignant and heart-wrenching of her novels.
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Language
English
Place of publication
South Royalton
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 202 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
268 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-883642-72-3 (9781883642723)
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Person
Dawn Powell