Books Do Furnish a Room: A Novel - Hardcover

Powell,Anthony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316715441 ISBN 13: 9780316715447

Publisher: Little Brown, 1971

Synopsis

Two or three years after the Second World War and London's literary world is finding its feet again, Nicholas Jenkins has found himself a job "doing the books" on a "little magazine". This brings about contact with persons known and unknown, including that talented writer of the war-generation, X. Now a Labour MP, Widmerpool abuts on these activities, but may have bitten off more than he can chew in marrying the young and beautiful Pamela Flitton.

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Review:

"'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)

"'Unquestionably the finest English comic novel of the period'" (Sunday Times)

"'Intensely enjoyable - his dry, ironic descriptions are very funny indeed. A witty and shapely account of conventional English education'" (Observer)

"'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)

From the Publisher:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Little Brown
• Publication date: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0316715441
• ISBN 13: 9780316715447
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1