The Locusts Have No King

Name: The Locusts Have No King
Author: Dawn Powell

by Dawn Powell

Novel of bohemian New York artists amid post-Depression aesthetic and romance

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Dawn Powell

Dawn Powell was a brilliantly witty satirist of New York bohemian and social life whose work was unjustly neglected for decades before a posthumous revival established her as a major American novelist. Her comedies of manners are incisive and darkly funny.

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