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The generic answer is A Time To Be Born (1942)--a dazzling and unsettling evocation of New York City on the verge of World War II, which grabs and holds from Paragraph 1. Still, in many ways, I think Turn, Magic Wheel (1936) is even more perfect--a fleet-footed satire of literary life and celebrity authors (namely Ernest H.), and one of Powell's few "modernist" books.
An earlier trombone cadenza was a modernist echo of the ram's-horn blast that ushers in the Jewish New Year.
If Davis was losing interest in the tricky harmonies of bop, he was acquiring a more painterly, and no less modernist, approach to sound.
Stevens offers a double liberation: first from meaning, then from modernist meaninglessness.
It was his introductions--to Henry Roth, to D. H. Lawrence, to Henry James-- that helped me feel at home with great modernist writers.