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(0)Dawn Powell
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Dennis Orphen, in writing a novel, has stolen the life story of his friend, Effie Callingham, the former wife of a famous, Hemingway-like novelist, Andrew Callingham. Orphen’s betrayal is not the only one, nor the worst one, in this hilarious satire of the New York literary scene. (Powell personally considered this to be her best New York novel.) Powell takes revenge here on all publishers, and her baffoonish MacTweed is a comic invention worthy...
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
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...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 127
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
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Author
Series
Library of America volume 126
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English