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Celebrated society photographer Saul Henchman and the beautiful young dancer Barberina Rockwood take a cruise around the British Isles, their mysterious, sensuous, and ominous relationship observed by their diverse fellow passengers

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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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Saul Henchman is impotent, crippled, grotesquely ugly. That he is nevertheless enormously attractive to women and a famous photographer to boot explains the interest he holds for his gossipy fellow passengers on a pleasure cruise to the north of Britain. Behind Powell's familiar world of upper-middle-class bitchery there looms, all the while, the legend of "the Fisher King," whose sexual mutilation has blasted his lands. After his widely acclaimed novel sequence, "A Dance to the Music of Time," any subsequent work by Powell is likely to appear slight. The Fisher King is deft enough, if dry by American standards; perhaps only Anglophiles will fully savor its quiet mixture of acerbity and comedy. For larger collections. Grove Koger, Boise P.L., Id.
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  • PublisherW W Norton & Co Inc
  • Publication date1986
  • ISBN 10 039302363X
  • ISBN 13 9780393023633
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages255
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