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The Wicked Pavilion
The Wicked Pavilion | 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’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 From the Trade Paperback edition.
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The Wicked Pavilion | Dawn Powell
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Shortly after two a sandy-haired gentleman in the middle years hurried into the Cafe Julian, sat down at Alexander's table as he always did, ordered coffee and cognac as he always did, asked for stationary as he always did, shook out a fountain pen and proceeded to write."

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Therewillbebooks
Therewillbebooks
The Wicked Pavilion | Dawn Powell
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The winner of Best Writer for this years There Will Be Books 2021 Book Oscars! The cover is very misleading as to the actual content of the novel.

https://anchor.fm/peter-murphy8

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Therewillbebooks
Therewillbebooks
The Wicked Pavilion | Dawn Powell
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Just released our Dawn Powell episode. She is, hands down, the most underrated American author of the 20th century. Tune in to hear us gush about The Wicked Pavilion!

https://anchor.fm/peter-murphy8

Ruthiella Interesting! I have a copy of The Locusts Have No King on my TBR! 3y
Therewillbebooks That one is very good too! 3y
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Therewillbebooks
Therewillbebooks
The Wicked Pavilion | Dawn Powell
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Picking out a new book of the month.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3TiuiKGlhPXcQjEdwMoTDC?si=9g65na_JQ5yfZ_wAMCnvQ...

BookDragonNotWorm I want a gnome to guard my books! Dog-ear-ers beware! 3y
Therewillbebooks He's a good guardian 3y
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Katherself
Katherself
The Wicked Pavilion | Dawn Powell
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Tea at the ready, breakfast in the oven, and here we go! Finishing The Wicked Pavilion first, and then ALL THE REST, hopefully, in no particular order. #Deweys24HourReadathon #readathon

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Katherself
Katherself
The Wicked Pavilion | Dawn Powell
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My friends, fellow Gilmore Girls fans, gave me this book almost a year ago for my birthday, and I'm FINALLY reading it. It's pretty great so far! It feels like somewhere between P.G. Wodehouse and Armistead Maupin, but written by a woman. Really enjoyable so far, and I love the characters. I can't wait to see what'll happen to them all.

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