The wicked pavilionDawn Powell

The wicked pavilion

Name: The wicked pavilion
ISBN: 9781581952124

Dawn Powell · 1954

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"The wicked pavilion of the title is the Cafe 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."--Back cover.

First sentence: Shortly after two a sandy-haired gentleman in the middle years hurried into the Cafe Julien, sat down at Alexander's table as he always did, ordered coffee and cognac as he always did, asked for stationery as he always did, shook out a fountain pen and proceeded to write.