Agents & Patients - Softcover

Powell, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784750700 ISBN 13: 9781784750701

Publisher: Arrow, 2015

Synopsis

Just down from Oxford in the depression of the Thirties, young Blore-Smith has the confidence of the callowest of youths, and the security of a sizeable private income. But when a car accident causes him to bump into Maltravers, an almost-famous film director, and Chipchase, a distinctly amateur psychoanalyst, he finds himself swept into an hilariously instructive -- yet costly -- adventure.

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

“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)

“Elegantly casual and scandalously funny.” (Charles Poore New York Times)

“Looking back at Powell’s earlier novels, it is possible to see him discovering there how to use his razor-sharp satirical sense until it is purged of bitterness and extravagance.” (Elizabeth Janeway New York Times)

“Anthony Powell is our foremost comic writer.” (V. S. Pritchett)

About this edition

• Publisher: Arrow
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1784750700
• ISBN 13: 9781784750701
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240