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The evening redness

The collected four novels with notes (1930-50) on his writing by Powell. The Blue Train: A young American man has a series of romantic relationships in the late 1930s with women in Paris, and then one in London. The river between: An elderly history professor, snow-bound in his mountain cabin with a young graduate student who is making a study of his creative career, tells the story of his love affair with the daughter of an Indian bruja, a tale fraught with hatred, intrigue, and witchcraft. El Morro: A beautiful but troubled Englishwoman, Arla Bay, travels to New Mexico to see the famed sandstone monument El Morro, and becomes involved with William Stone, a park ranger. Portrait of my father: The distinguished essayist presents an account, in fictionalized form, of his quest to unravel the puzzling life story of his father—a scientist and citrus company executive with a secret past in Paris.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 436 pages

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