She Walks in Beauty (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

Dawn Powell's She Walks in Beauty recounts the adolescence of Dorrie and Linda, two sisters who live in a railroad station boarding house owned by their Aunt Jule in a small Ohio town. The story's cast of characters includes gently venal theater actors, the town gossip, a penurious piano teacher, eccentric alcoholics, not quite respectable women, philosophical "old man Wickley," and town golden boy Courtenay Stall, among others. A tale of class society, ambition, longing, and coming of age, She Walks in Beauty is a taut, merciless, and psychologically astute portrait of pre-World War I life in small town America. This Warbler Classics edition includes a detailed biographical timeline.

Author: Dawn Powell
Publisher: Warbler Classics
Published: 02/10/2024
Pages: 206
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9781962572453

About the Author
Powell, Dawn: - Dawn Powell (1896-1965) was a prolific American novelist, playwright, and short story writer known for her biting social satires. Although she gained a degree of critical success in her lifetime and earned the respect of fellow writers such as Ernest Hemingway (his "favorite living novelist"), E. E. Cummings, Gore Vidal ("our best comic novelist"), and J. B Priestly, her work was not fully appreciated until well after her death.