Hearing Secret Harmonies - Couverture rigide

Powell,Anthony

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0316715921 ISBN 13 : 9780316715928

Editeur : Heinemann, 1975

Synopsis

Book by Powell Anthony

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

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.

Discover the extraordinary life of Anthony Powell – captured by acclaimed biographer Hilary Spurling in Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time – available now in hardback and ebook from Hamish Hamilton.

Revue de presse

"'I would rather read Mr Powell than any English novelist now writing'" (Kingsley Amis)

"'A unique joy'" (Sunday Times)

"'Mr Powell's imagination is inexhaustible'" (Spectator)

"'I think it is now becoming clear that A Dance to the Music of Time is going to become the greatest modern novel since Ulysses'" (Clive James)

"'I find Powell the sort of writer who exerts such a strong pull that turning anyone else's books, after his, calls for an effort of will - One of the most individual tones of voice in contemporary novel-writing and one of the most artful'" (Norman Shrapnel Guardian)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Heinemann
• Date d'édition: 1975
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0316715921
• ISBN 13: 9780316715928
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible