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Arranged in 30 chapters, each a rounded essay in its own right, Modern Times, Modern Places is a powerfully evocative appraisal of the 20th century and its achievements that succeeds, quite frankly, where many will fail. --David Vincent
"When dealing with European modernist arts, Conrad is at his best, capturing elusive issues with apt phrasing and lucidity. . .A sweeping intellectual autobiography. . .a compelling--indeed a fascinating--study and a highly engaging feat of scholarship."
--Publishers Weekly
"Conrad's prose is as fluid as his ideas are sharp, and the scope of his reference is vast, its application unassailable. This is intellectual writing at its most accessible. . . .Arranged in 30 chapters, each a rounded essay in its own right, Modern Times, Modern Places is a powerfully evocative appraisal of the 20th century and its achievements."
--Editor's eview on Amazon.com
"[Conrad] capably integrates massive amounts of information into a smoothly entertaining chronicle. . .This accomplished and very thorough round-up of our century's most important cultural trends is perfect for the serious general reader."
--Kirkus reviews
British reviews:
A survey for which the phrase tour de force might have been invented.
--John Naughton, The Times
The single most extensive study of modernism which [England] has ever produced, dazzlingly comprehensive in range . . . It roams stylishly from one art form, nation and period to another, packing in a formidable amount of learning without a single footnote to its name. Conrad is as instructive about dance, film and architecture as he is about novels and opera, and writes an inventively metaphorical prose.
--Terry Eagleton's "International Book of the Year," Times Literary Supplement
As the Millennium approaches, there will be no end of twentieth-century retrospectives, but few will be as entertaining or as erudite as this. Conrad is stunningly well-informed, compulsively allusive and equipped with the kind of imagination that transforms the base metal of contemporary history into pure gold.
--Robert McCrum, The Observer
A stunning cultural history, profoundly felt and thoroughly well-informed. Peter Conrad knows as much about the modern fiction, film, serious music and 'high art' of Britain, America, France, and Germany as almost any other living critic. He wrests new perceptions from familiar works. He has an utterly distinctive use of language, which is always uncannily accurate, unimprovably concise.
--Felipe Fernandez Armesto, The Observer
The literary critic Peter Conrad has written a blockbuster of a book, a work which will inspire admiration and wonder. He writes with enviable fluency; [his style] is marvelously free of academic theoretical jargon.
--Noel Malcolm, The Sunday Telegraph
Conrad's book is to be celebrated for renewing our awareness of modernity, the defining intellectual and artistic movement of our time--.It is a grand, heroic work of reconstruction and recollection.
--Bryan Appleyard, Literary Review
Engaging, individual, and memorable--
--Philip Hensher, The Spectator
An extraordinary performance--The erudition is awesome. Conrad seems to have read, seen and understood everything--a breathtakingly brilliant feat.
--Gilbert Adair, Evening Standard
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