WHATS BECOME OF WARING - Hardcover

Powell, Anthony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 043459914X ISBN 13: 9780434599141

Publisher: Random House UK, 1998

Synopsis

This fascinating catalog of the comic relates the ironic and ludicrous adventures of a noted (but mysterious) English travel-book writer whose reported “death” throws the London literary world into a tizzy. Anthony Powell is also the author of O, How the Wheel Becomes It! and Venusberg .

About this title

About the Author

ANTHONY POWELL was born in 1905. After working in publishing and as a scriptwriter, he began to write for the Daily Telegraph in the mid-1930s. He served in the army during World War II and subsequently became the fiction reviewer on the TLS. Next came five years as literary editor of Punch. He was appointed a Companion of Honour in 1988. In addition to the twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time, Anthony Powell was the author of seven other novels, and four volumes of memoirs, To Keep the Ball Rolling. He died in March 2000.

Review

“The quest for the historical Waring becomes the wildly entangled pursuit and exposure of a literary charlatan, and involves a gallery of British comic types. . . . There is laughter all the way. . . . A must for Powell devotees.” (Edmund Fuller New York Times Book Review)

“Gratifyingly eccentric.” (Paul Pickrel Harper’s Magazine)

“A Christmas tree for the display of a grand, glittering array of splendid comic characters doing funny things. Mr. Powell’s prose is beautiful and hilarious, and the whole nutty arrangement ends too soon.” (New Yorker)

“I do not see how anyone who is not an imbecile can fail to be amused and delighted with What’s Become of Waring.” (Observer)

“A master of irony . . . a writer of social comedy as revelatory as any written by Evelyn Waugh or Henry Green.” (Leo Lerman New York Times)

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House UK
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 043459914X
• ISBN 13: 9780434599141
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 236