BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 in The Sunday Times, Spectator, Mail on Sunday, Observer and Financial Times
'A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year
'One of our generation's greatest biographers' London Review of Books
'Witty, spirited, richly crowded with incident and character - a joy to read' Prospect
From the author of the prize-winning Matisse The Master comes an essential biography of one of 20th century Britain's greatest literary minds
Anthony Powell: the literary genius who gave us A Dance to the Music of Time, an epic twelve spectacular volume cyle of novels about twentieth century British society. This comic masterpiece teems with idiosyncratic characters, capturing Britain through war and peace in all its eccentricity. And it was inspired by the author's own life immersed in rich social intrigue - debutante balls, penniless muses, publisher feuds, summers on the French Riviera, weekend parties at country houses, and friendships with everyone from Evelyn Waugh to Graham Greene to VS Naipaul...
Hilary Spurling brings all this back to vivid life, investigating the friends, relations, lovers and acquaintances, fools and savants who surrounded Anthony Powell, and who he immortalised in his magnificent literary legacy.
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| ISBN: | 9780141030791 |
| Publication date: | 4th October 2018 |
| Author: | Hilary Spurling |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 544 pages |
| Genres: |
Biography: writers Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Social and cultural history Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |
BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 in The Sunday Times, Spectator, Mail on Sunday, Observer and Financial Times'A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year'One of our generation's greatest biographers' London Review of Books'Witty, spirited, richly crowded with incident and character - a joy to read' ProspectFrom the author of the prize-winning Matisse The Master comes an essential biography of one of 20th century Britain's greatest literary mindsAnthony Powell: the literary genius who gave us A Dance to the Music of Time, an epic twelve spectacular volume cyle of novels about twentieth century British society. This comic masterpiece teems with idiosyncratic characters, capturing Britain through war and peace in all its eccentricity.
Anthony Powell features in the following genres: Biography: writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
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Anthony Powell was written by Hilary Spurling and published by Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Anthony Powell has 544 pages
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