Alms For Oblivion Volume II (Alms for Oblivion, 2) - Softcover

Raven, Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099561336 ISBN 13: 9780099561330

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2012

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub the Date: May. 2012 Pages: 848 in Publisher: Vintage Classics Simon Raven's sequence of colorful and funny novels about the English upper-class misbehaving continues against a backdrop of intrigue to in. Athens. Radicalism in. Camidge turmoil in. India and movie- making in Corfu. Dazzlingly witty and thoroughly depraved. Raven's world is also a dark mirror to our times - one that is sure to make you blush. shriek. laugh out loud and always read on. Volume 2: The Judas Boy. Places Where they Sing. Sound the Retreat and Come Like Shadows

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Simon Raven's sequence of colourful and funny novels about the English upper-class misbehaving continues against a backdrop of intrigue in Athens, radicalism in Cambridge, turmoil in India and movie-making in Corfu. Dazzlingly witty and thoroughly depraved, Raven's world is also a dark mirror to our times - one that is sure to make you blush, shriek, laugh out loud and always read on.

Volume 2: The Judas Boy, Places Where they Sing, Sound the Retreat and Come Like Shadows

Review:

"Raven has the mind of a cad and the pen of an angel" (Guardian)

"An extraordinary novelist...magnificent" (Mail on Sunday)

"A ready made cult waiting to be discovered" (Spectator)

"Confident, worldly-wise, insolently comic... a highly entertaining narrative style" (Sunday Times)

"Turn to Raven and revel in his mischievious, malicious world" (Observer)

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0099561336
• ISBN 13: 9780099561330
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 848