Anthony Powell
Dancing to the Music of Time
- Paperback
544 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2018
Summary
Captivating, immersive portrait of the acclaimed British novelist and high society wit - from one of our generation’s foremost biographers
Peerless literary biographer Hilary Spurling turns her attention to Anthony Powell, an iconic figure of English letters. Equally notorious for his literary achievements and his lacerating wit, Powell famously authored the twelve-volume, twenty-five year magnum opus, A Dance to the Music of Time. This enduringly fascinating portrait of mid-…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141030791 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141030798 |
| Author: | Hilary Spurling |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2018 |
| Weight: | 420g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 38mm |
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Critics Review
[An] excellent and vivid biography… exemplary and deliciously readable * The Guardian *
One of our generation’s greatest biographers * London Review Bookshop *
Meticulous… Where Spurling excels is in her punchy analyses of his novels and her understanding of the writer’s life * The Financial Times *
Spurling has triumphed…A compelling portrait of a lost Englishman * The Observer *
This is a fine biography by a writer who knew Powell well, and who understands how writers think * The Spectator *
An accomplished biography of a great writer * Tatler *
Spurling has brought him to humane and generous life * The Daily Telegraph *
A sharp, graceful writer who has immersed herself in the territory… wonderfully vivid * The Mail on Sunday *
An accomplished biographer… her pen portraits are deft and vivid… brisk and bold in her evaluation of a character or retelling of an incident. Her comments on Powell’s writing are always illuminating * The New Statesman *
Anyone feeling gloomy in their early 50s, worried they’ve been leading rather a futile life for half a century, should read this biography * Daily Mail *
About The Author
Hilary Spurling
Hilary Spurling is the author of numerous biographies, including Ivy When Young- The Early Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884-1919; Paul Scott- A Life; a two-volume biography of Matisse, The Unknown Matisse and Matisse the Master (also published in the abridged single-volume Matisse- The Life); and Burying the Bones. She won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize for Ivy When Young, the Whitbread Book of the Year Award for Matisse the Master, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Burying the Bones. In 2016 she won the Biographers’ Club Lifetime Achievement Award.
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