Anthony Powell: Dancing To The Music Of Time
by Hilary Spurling /
2018 / English / EPUB
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The author of the award-winning, two-volume
The author of the award-winning, two-volumeMatisse: A
Life,
Matisse: A
Life, now gives us the long-awaited, definitive biography of
literary master Anthony Powell--the critic, editor, and novelist
known as "the English Proust"-- that, at the same time, takes us
deep into twentieth-century London literary life.
now gives us the long-awaited, definitive biography of
literary master Anthony Powell--the critic, editor, and novelist
known as "the English Proust"-- that, at the same time, takes us
deep into twentieth-century London literary life.
Anthony Powell (1905-2000), best known for his twelve-volume comic
masterpiece,
Anthony Powell (1905-2000), best known for his twelve-volume comic
masterpiece,A Dance to the Music of Time,
A Dance to the Music of Time, was also the
author of sixteen earlier novels, plays, and biographies, five
memoirs, and three volumes of journals. He was a prolific literary
critic and book reviewer. Between the two world wars, before making
his name, he kept company with rowdy, hard-up writers and
painters--and painters' models--in the London where Augustus John
and Wyndham Lewis loomed large. He counted Evelyn Waugh and Henry
Green among his lifelong friends, and his circle included the
Sitwells, Graham Greene, George Orwell, Philip Larkin, and Kingsley
Amis, among many others. Now, drawing on his letters, diaries, and
interviews, Hilary Spurling--herself a longtime friend of
Powell's-- has written a fresh and masterful portrait of the man,
his work, and his time. Insightful, poignant, and cinematic in
scope, this biography is as much a brilliant tapestry of a seminal
moment in London's literary life as it is a revelation of an iconic
literary figure.
was also the
author of sixteen earlier novels, plays, and biographies, five
memoirs, and three volumes of journals. He was a prolific literary
critic and book reviewer. Between the two world wars, before making
his name, he kept company with rowdy, hard-up writers and
painters--and painters' models--in the London where Augustus John
and Wyndham Lewis loomed large. He counted Evelyn Waugh and Henry
Green among his lifelong friends, and his circle included the
Sitwells, Graham Greene, George Orwell, Philip Larkin, and Kingsley
Amis, among many others. Now, drawing on his letters, diaries, and
interviews, Hilary Spurling--herself a longtime friend of
Powell's-- has written a fresh and masterful portrait of the man,
his work, and his time. Insightful, poignant, and cinematic in
scope, this biography is as much a brilliant tapestry of a seminal
moment in London's literary life as it is a revelation of an iconic
literary figure.
