A Question of Upbringing - Couverture souple

Powell, Anthony

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0749306580 ISBN 13 : 9780749306588

Editeur : Mandarin, 1991

Synopsis

One in a sequence of novels collectively titled "A Dance to the Music of Time". More than 300 characters are choreographed over a period of 70 years, starting with this novel.

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, Powell is the author of seven other novels, and four volumes of memoirs, To Keep the Ball Rolling. Anthony Powell died at the age of ninety-five in 2000.

Revue de presse

"Incalculably brilliant" (Time Magazine)

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mandarin
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0749306580
• ISBN 13: 9780749306588
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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