A Time to Be Born

Name: A Time to Be Born
Author: Dawn Powell

by Dawn Powell

Novel of woman finding love and identity among sophisticated New York circles

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Dawn Powell

Dawn Powell was a brilliantly witty satirist of New York bohemian and social life whose work was unjustly neglected for decades before a posthumous revival established her as a major American novelist. Her comedies of manners are incisive and darkly funny.

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