Locusts Have No King

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

179 kr

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Frederick Olliver and Lyle Gaynor are an unlikely pair. He is an introverted, bookish medievalist who still lives with a flatmate, while she is a glamorous, wildly successful playwright who refuses to leave her marriage because it secures her social standing. Frederick does not belong in Lyle's high-powered world, yet fate has other plans. When Frederick's long-gestating opus is seized by his publisher in a last-ditch attempt to save their struggling business, it unexpectedly becomes a massive success.Suddenly, Frederick finds himself in the spotlight, attracting admirers-including the fiercely determined Dodo, who pursues him with an agenda of her own. As Lyle's Broadway career falters and Frederick becomes the literary darling of the very scene he once dismissed, the two must navigate a reversal of fortunes in a society obsessed with wealth and status, where love often comes at a price.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-12-03
Mått129 x 198 x 15 mm
Vikt309 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePushkin Press Classics
Antal sidor288
FörlagPushkin Press
ISBN9781805333241

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Dawn Powell (1896-1965) was an American novelist and playwright known for her incisive satires of New York's cultural and literary circles. Born in Mount Gilead, Ohio, she endured a tumultuous childhood before running away at thirteen to live with an aunt who later supported her studies at Lake Erie College. After graduating, Powell moved to New York City, immersing herself in the bohemian atmosphere of Greenwich Village as a "permanent visitor" to the metropolis.She gained early recognition for her witty, often risqué pieces in The New Yorker and Esquire, and 1939 became a Scribner author, sharing legendary editor Maxwell Perkins with Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Although Powell enjoyed a devoted circle of admirers, her work drifted into obscurity after her death. Interest in her novels was revived decades later through Gore Vidal's appraisal in The New York Review of Books, as well as championing from Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Tim Page, who as executor of her estate has worked tirelessly to keep Powell in print.