Temporary Kings - Hardcover
A Dance to the Music of Time ? his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England.The novels follow Nicholas Jenkins, Kenneth Widmerpool and others, as they negotiate the intellectual, cultural and social hurdles that stand between them and the ?Acceptance World.?
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Anthony Powell was born in 1905. He worked in a publishing house before joining the Daily Telegraph. He later became editor of Punch magazine. He is the author of the hugely successful Dance to the Music of Time sequence of novels, wich was recently made into a major television drama. He died in the Spring of 2000.
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“I think it is now becoming clear that A Dance to the Music of Time is going to become the greatest modern novel since Ulysses.”
—Clive James
“I would rather read Mr Powell than any English novelist now writing.”
—Kingsley Amis
—Clive James
“I would rather read Mr Powell than any English novelist now writing.”
—Kingsley Amis
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- PublisherIsis Large Print
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0753158248
- ISBN 13 9780753158241
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages352
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Temporary Kings (Dance to the Music of Time)
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ISBN 13: 9780753158241
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