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The Wicked Pavilion by Dawn Powell

The Wicked Pavilion

By Dawn Powell

By Dawn Powell

By Dawn Powell

By Dawn Powell

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Jun 01, 1998 | ISBN 9781883642396

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Nov 08, 2011 | ISBN 9781581952490

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    About The Wicked Pavilion

    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’s Turn, 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 becoming a major religion." –– Gore Vidal

    About The Wicked Pavilion

    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’s Turn, 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 becoming a major religion." –– Gore Vidal

    Also by Dawn Powell

    Dance Night
    Turn, Magic Wheel
    The Diaries of Dawn Powell
    A Time to Be Born
    My Home Is Far Away
    See all books by Dawn Powell

    Also by Dawn Powell

    Dance Night
    Turn, Magic Wheel
    The Diaries of Dawn Powell
    A Time to Be Born
    My Home Is Far Away
    See all books by Dawn Powell

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $14.95
    Published by Steerforth
    Jun 01, 1998 | 281 Pages | 5-1/4 x 8 | ISBN 9781883642396

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Steerforth
    Nov 08, 2011 | 281 Pages | ISBN 9781581952490

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    Praise

    “The Wicked Pavilion can justly be called the most accurate, the most penetrating, the most outrageously comic of all the hundreds of novels written about the Village.” – Ross Wetzsteon in his landmark history of Greenwich Village, Republic of Dreams (Simon & Schuster, 2002)

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