{"product_id":"a-time-to-be-born","title":"A Time to Be Born (Pushkin Press Classics)","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis scathing “comedy of manners” set in the 1940s “steers us through the lives of women who come to New York . . . for love, money, opportunity, and a good time” (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e At the center of this 1942 novel are a wealthy, self-involved newspaper publisher and his scheming, novelist wife, Amanda Keeler—who ensnares Ohioan Vicky Haven in her social and romantic manipulations.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Author Dawn Powell always denied 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?”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Set against an atmospheric backdrop of New York City in the months just before America’ s entry into World War II, \u003ci\u003eA Time of Be Born\u003c\/i\u003e is a scathing and hilarious study of cynical New Yorkers stalking each other for various selfish ends.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51305226797344,"sku":"9781805333265","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9781805333265.jpg?v=1772753552","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/products\/a-time-to-be-born","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}