Turn, magic wheel
by Dawn Powell
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SOME FINE DAY I'LL HAVE to pay, Dennis thought, you can't sacrifice everything in life to curiosity.
About this book
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.
Themes & subjects
American NovelistsFictionFiction, generalWomenMan-woman relationshipsAuthors
First published 1936Setting
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)New York City
About the author
Dawn Powell
1897 – 1965
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