The Wicked Pavilion
 The Gift of Laughter: "Born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world is mad," remarks an anonymous character in "The Wicked Pavilion." That seems like a shard of a micro-self-portrait buried in the book. And can one ever [... more]
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Novels 1944 To 1962
Satiric, witty, sharply written and observant fiction: An author of immense popularity, Dawn Powell (1896-1965) wrote satiric, witty, sharply written and observant fiction that went out of print following her death. Then in the early 1990s a renewed [... more]
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The Locusts Have No King
When a "Real" New Yorker Is Just a Provincial: This is a fine, funny satire of New York literary life, and of the thousands of "real New Yorkers" who arrive from their small town or boring suburb and don't write that great novel, or [... more]
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