My Home is Far Away (Paperback: Reprint: 319 pages)
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Best known for her brilliant New York satires, Dawn Powell--like her protagonist here, Marcia Willard--was the second of three sisters who, after their mother's death from consumption, were virtually abandoned by their feckless father. Set amid the railroad yards and rooming houses of the Midwest at the turn of the century, this extraordinary, nominally fictionalized autobiography (first published in 1944) quietly documents the humiliations of a radically impoverished childhood.
...the long-unavailable novel in which [Powell] tells the story of her Ohio childhood...one of the permanent masterpieces of childhood, comparable with 'David Copperfield', 'What Maisie Knew', and the early reminiscences of Colette. Reading 'My Home Is Far Away', one inevitably wonders why Powell never found an audience. The most likely reason is that her books are devoid of the dogged earnestness that has always been for most Americans the only sure sign of true art. Like all satirists, Powell was in deadly earnest, but she never saw any reason to be tiresome about it. Her touch was light, her tone whip-smart...Dawn Powell was one of America's best novelists, and if there is any justice...she will soon receive her due.
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