The Locusts Have No King

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Author: Dawn Powell

Alternate-cover edition for ISBN ISBN 1883642426 / 9781883642426 is located here: The Locusts Have No King,,No one has satirized New York society quite like Dawn Powell, and in this classic novel she turns her sharp eye and stinging wit on the literary world, and “identifies every sort of publishing type with the patience of a pathologist removing organs for inspection.” Fr….Read More

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