The â€œWicked Pavilionâ€ of the title is the CafÃ© Julien, where everybody who is anybody goes to recover from failed love affairs and to pursue new ones, to cadge money, to hatch plots,

The Wicked Pavilion

The â€œWicked Pavilionâ€ of the title is the CafÃ© 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 anotherâ€™s reputation. Dennis Orphen, the writer from Dawn Powellâ€™s Turn, Magic Wheel, makes an appearance here, as does Andy Callingham, Powellâ€™s thinly disguised Ernest Hemingway. The climax of this mercilessly funny novel comes with a party which, remarked Gore Vidal, â€œresembles Proustâ€™s last roundup,â€ and where one of the partygoers observes, â€œThere are some people here who have been dead twenty years.â€

"For decades Dawn Powell was always just on the verge of ceasing to be a cult and becoming a major religion." -- Gore Vidal
Country USA
Brand Ballantine Books
Manufacturer Steerforth
Binding Paperback
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 1998-06-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781883642396

The Wicked Pavilion