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The Happy Island
The Happy Island
Author: Dawn Powell
IN THIS ACIDIC, provocative, and–for its time–daring novel, Dawn Powell set out to write the story of "the bachelors of New York in the Satyricon style." The time is the late 1930s, and the young taciturn playwright, Jefferson Abbott, arrives in New York by bus from Silver City, Ohio and looks up his childhood sweetheart, Prudence Bl...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781883642792
ISBN-10: 1883642795
Publication Date: 8/1/1998
Pages: 275
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Publisher: Zoland Books
Book Type: Paperback
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absolutely terrific book, well written, incisive and insightful, scathingly funny and yet sad


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