The Wicked Pavilion
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The Wicked Pavilion
Dawn Powell
Literature
James Mustich
Jul 31, 2018
It may be Dawn Powell’s fate to remain always a neglected genius—all the more reason for her impassioned advocates to share the pleasure of her work with fellow readers at every opportunity. The setting of The Wicked Pavilion is the Café Julien, modeled on Powell’s favorite Manhattan hangout, the Café Lafayette. The characters are painters and writers, lovers and gold diggers, patrons and frauds. With razor-sharp precision, Powell inscribes a portrait of bohemian New York in which aspirations, ambitions, and infatuations are spent wildly, with no return other than the confusion of those possessed by them.
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Dan Cooper
Dec 11, 2019
This is a playful inviting novel and I'm glad to have read it.
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