Pictures of Fidelman
by Bernard Malamud |
Flood
by Robert Penn Warren | 
Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man
by Joseph Heller | 
Answered Prayers
by Truman Capote | 
Angels on Toast
by Dawn Powell | 
Americana
by Don DeLillo | 
Lucy Gayheart
by Willa Cather | 
Full of Life
by John Fante | 
The Easy Chain
by Evan Dara | 
Turn, Magic Wheel
by Dawn Powell | 
Ten Thousand Saints
by Eleanor Henderson | 
The Tidewater Tales
by John Barth | 
Band of Angels
by Robert Penn Warren | 
The Ultimate Good Luck
by Richard Ford |
All Grown Up
by Jami Attenberg | 
Still Life with Woodpecker
by Tom Robbins | 
The Lie
by Chad Kultgen | 
The Average American Marriage
by Chad Kultgen | 
Come Back to Sorrento
by Dawn Powell | 
The Wicked Pavilion
by 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?'? From the Trade Paperback edition.