Temporary kings: A novel (A Dance to the music of time) - Softcover

Powell, Anthony

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9780006145486: Temporary kings: A novel (A Dance to the music of time)

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ISBN 10: 0006145485 ISBN 13: 9780006145486

Publisher: Fontana, 1977

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The eleventh novel in Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time.

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.

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"'Intricate and enthralling - As always, the novel pivots on a concept of the profound comedy of all human posture. But the humour is indisputably darker, pervaded by a sense that soon careers will be concluded, aspirations wither away. Rich, complex, original showing consummate narrative skill'" (Times Literary Supplement)

"'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)

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

"'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)

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The eleventh novel in Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time

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