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She Walks in Beauty

She Walks in Beauty

Powell, Dawn

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Series: Belt Revivals

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

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ISBN10: 1953368956
ISBN13: 9781953368959
Publisher: Belt Publishing
Published: Jun 17 2025
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.44 Depth: 8.43
Language: English
A coming-of-age story of two sisters living in their grandmother's boarding house in a small Ohio town just before the first world war and the characters who filter in an out of the house and their lives.

For teenager Linda Shirley, her residence in a family boarding house is a fact to be hidden, ignored, and, eventually, escaped. She aims for a better life and tries desperately to win the approval of the town's elite, particularly the popular Courtenay Stall, over whom she pines. Her younger sister, Dorrie, is a dreamer who not only tolerates but often delights in the colorful guests of the house, from the reluctantly retired theater troupers to the glamorous young woman of ill-repute, the bed-bound intellectual in the attic to the circus snake charmer who keeps her babies in ill-secured boxes under her bed.

For Dawn Powell, satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out. She Walks in Beauty is a satire in the most insightful sense, showing the specific clarity and cloudiness of two very different sisters' worldviews. This Belt Revivals edition includes a new introduction by critic Ilana Masad.

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