Wicked Pavilion

Name: Wicked Pavilion
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ISBN: 9781883642396

ISBN-10: 1883642396

ISBN-13: 9781883642396

Edition: 1996

Authors: Dawn Powell

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The “Wicked Pavilion” of the title is the Café Julien, where everybody who is anybody goes to recover from failed love affairs and to pursue new ones, to cadge money, to hatch plots, and to puncture one another’s reputation. Dennis Orphen, the writer from Dawn Powell’sTurn, Magic Wheel, makes an appearance here, as does Andy Callingham, Powell’s thinly disguised Ernest Hemingway. The climax of this mercilessly funny novel comes with a party which, remarked Gore Vidal, “resembles Proust’s last roundup,” and where one of the partygoers observes, “There are some people here who have been dead twenty years.” "For decades Dawn Powell was always just on the verge of ceasing to be a cult and…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Publication date: 6/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English