DAWN POWELL

Set against an atmospheric backdrop of New York City in the months just before America''s entry into World War II, A Time To Be Born is a scathing and hilarious study of cynical New Yorkers stalking each other for various selfish ends. At the center of the story are a wealthy, self-involved newspaper publisher and his scheming, novelist wife, Amanda Keeler. Powell always denied that Amanda Keeler was based upon the real-life Clare Boothe Luce, until years later when she discovered a memo she''d written to herself in 1939 that said, "Why not do a novel on Clare Luce?" Which prompted Powell to write in her diary "Who can I believe? Me or myself?"

La última novela de Dawn Powell, una historia sobre Nueva York, un padre ausente y la vieja bohemia de la ciudad. Una novela ambientada en Nueva York sobre un joven en busca de su verdadero padre. Segundo titulo, tras Cafe Julien, de la Biblioteca Dawn Powell, Un amor en el Golden Spur es la ultima novela de la gran escritora norteamericana, la condensacion de toda una vida dedicada a la narrativa, para muchos su obra maestra.

Deslumbrante sátira sobre la vida literaria del Nueva York clásico, quizá la tercera entrega de la ''Biblioteca Dan Powell'' sea una de las mejores novelas sobre la gran ciudad. Una hilarante carnaval de infidelidades, editores, escritores indiscretos y esposas infelices donde la verdadera protagonista es la metropoli, que respira y resplandece con luz propia en esta farsa ironica e inteligente, repleta de vanidades y traiciones.

Compañera de generación y de resacas de Dorothy Parker, Ernest Hemingway, Edmund Wilson o Scott Fitzgerald, Dawn Powel es la autora menos conocida de aquel grupo de brillantes escritores cosmopolitas. Relegada durante muchos años al olvido, fue Gore Vidal quien llamo poderosamente la atencion sobre la obra novelistica de esta escritora. Vidal subrayo la injusticia que la posteridad habia impartido a una autora acida, caustica, dueña de un muy sutil sentido del humor y de una impagable capacidad para evocar el Nueva York de los años veinte y treinta.Cafe Julien es una de sus obras tardias y, segun muchos criticos, una de las mejores. Con ella, Lumen da inicio a su Biblioteca Dawn Powell, destinada a paliar el desconocimiento por parte del publico español de una autora imprescindible.

Dennis Orphen is a young, clever novelist with a keen eye for a good story. This time, however, his material is drawn from the romantic woes of his closest friend, Effie Callingham. More than a decade earlier, Effies husband-the superstar writer Andrew Callingham-abandoned her for a younger, prettier woman. In the years since, Effie has stubbornly defended his reputation, clinging to the desperate hope that he might one day come to his senses and return.When Denniss novel is published, their friendship is put to the test. In his thinly veiled portrait, Effies private pain is exposed to a scandal-hungry literary society, while Andrew is unmasked as a womanising egoist. Meanwhile, Dennis finds himself entangled in romantic troubles of his own, locked in an uneasy relationship with Corinne, a married woman whose presence provokes both longing and jealousy.Together, Dennis and Effie are forced to confront unpalatable truths about themselves in this immensely entertaining yet deeply poignant satire, set in the seedy underbelly of New York society, from brandy-drenched nightclubs to cab-lined curbs.