Angels on toast
1st. Steerforth Press ed.
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Author
Publication
1996 - Steerforth Press, South Royalton, Vt, Vermont
Language
English
Word Count
61,250 words, Guess
Page Count
245 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveangelsontoast00powe
- ISBN-10188364240X
- ISBN-139781883642402
- LibraryThing117936
- Goodreads1280275
Classifications
- DDC813/.52
- LCCPS3531.O936 A83 1996
- LCCPS3531.O936A83 1996
Description
Written between the 1930s and the 1950s, the novels of Dawn Powell evoke a time when an artist *manqué* could come to New York with no money and improvise a life there within days; an era when even the most melancholy hotel housed a population of genteel eccentrics. They are comic masterpieces, inhabited by charming hacks, hustlers, and poseurs, deliciously venal men, Machiavellian women, and monstrous children. In the world of *Angels on Toast* (1940), everyone is triumphantly on the make. Lou Donovan, the entrepreneur who ricochets frantically between his well-connected wife, his disreputable ex, and his dangerously greedy mistress. Trina Kameray, the exotic adventuress whose job title is as phony as her accent. T.V. Truesdale, the man with the aristocratic manner, the fourteen-dollar suit, and the hyperactive eye for the main chance. The deals and machinations of these characters make this novel dizzyingly fast-paced and deliriously entertaining.
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