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The hugely successful early novel which established Anthony Powell as a leading voice in English comic fiction, What's Become of Waring is the teasing and wittily contrived story about a famous but elusive travel author who seems to have some very good reasons for concealing his life behind a screen of mystery.
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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.
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“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)
“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)
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- PublisherRandom House UK
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0749312009
- ISBN 13 9780749312008
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- Number of pages240
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