num_pages: 286
description: 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." Frederick Olliver, an obscure historian and writer, is having an affair with the restively married, beautiful, and hugely successful playwright, Lyle Gaynor. Powell sets a see-saw in motion when Olliver is swept up by the tasteless publishing tycoon, Tyson Bricker, and his new book makes its way onto to the bestseller lists just as Lyle's Broadway career is coming apart.
language: English
title: The Locusts Have No King
titlecomplete: The Locusts Have No King
genres: 20th Century, American, Female Authors, New York, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Classics, Fiction, Humor
ratings_count: 517
publisher: Steerforth Press