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Unsavory artists, titled boobs, and charlatans with an affinity for Freud - such are the oddballs whose antics animate these early novels from the late British master Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire delivered with a very dry wit, Powell builds his comedies on the foibles of British high society between the wars, delving into subjects as various as psychoanalysis, the film industry, publishing, and (of course) sex. More explorations of relationships and vanity than plot-driven narratives, these slim novels reveal the early stirrings of the unequaled style, ear for dialogue, and eye for irony that would reach their caustic peak in Powell's epic A Dance to the Music of Time. From a View to a Death takes us to a dilapidated country estate where an ambitious artist of questionable talent, a family of landed aristocrats wondering where the money has gone, and a secretly cross-dressing squire all commingle among the ruins. In Agents and Patients, we return to London with the newly wealthy Blore-Smith: an innocent, decent enough chap...and a drip who falls victim to two con artists. In What's Become of Waring, Powell lampoons a world with which he was intimately acquainted: the inner workings of a small London publisher. Filled with eccentric characters and piercing insights, Powell's work is achingly hilarious, human, and true.
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"A master of irony . . . a writer of social comedy as revelatory as any written by Evelyn Waugh or Henry Green."--Leo Lerman "New York Times "
"Elegantly casual and scandalously funny."--Charles Poore "New York Times "
"Looking back at Powell's earlier novels, it is possible to see him discovering there how to use his razor-sharp satirical sense until it is purged of bitterness and extravagance."--Elizabeth Janeway "New York Times "
"Anthony Powell is our foremost comic writer."--V. S. Pritchett
A master of irony . . . a writer of social comedy as revelatory as any written by Evelyn Waugh or Henry Green. --Leo Lerman "New York Times ""
Elegantly casual and scandalously funny. --Charles Poore "New York Times ""
Looking back at Powell s earlier novels, it is possible to see him discovering there how to use his razor-sharp satirical sense until it is purged of bitterness and extravagance. --Elizabeth Janeway "New York Times ""
Anthony Powell is our foremost comic writer. --V. S. Pritchett"
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"Elegantly casual and scandalously funny."--Charles Poore "New York Times "
"Looking back at Powell's earlier novels, it is possible to see him discovering there how to use his razor-sharp satirical sense until it is purged of bitterness and extravagance."--Elizabeth Janeway "New York Times "
"Anthony Powell is our foremost comic writer."--V. S. Pritchett
A master of irony . . . a writer of social comedy as revelatory as any written by Evelyn Waugh or Henry Green. --Leo Lerman "New York Times ""
Elegantly casual and scandalously funny. --Charles Poore "New York Times ""
Looking back at Powell s earlier novels, it is possible to see him discovering there how to use his razor-sharp satirical sense until it is purged of bitterness and extravagance. --Elizabeth Janeway "New York Times ""
Anthony Powell is our foremost comic writer. --V. S. Pritchett"
Just down from Oxford in the depre4ssion of the Thirties, young Blore-Smith has the confidence of the callowest of youths, and the security of a sizeable private income. But when a car accident causes him to bump into Maltravers, an almost-famous film director, and Chipchase, a dinstinctly amateur psychoanalyst, he finds himself swept into an hilariously instructive - yet costly - adventure...
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- PublisherWilliam Heinemann Ltd
- Publication date1963
- ISBN 10 0434599026
- ISBN 13 9780434599028
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages219
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Broom-Lynne, (jacket) (illustrator). New Edition. Later printing of 1978. Light wear to tips, corners and edges of book and jacket. price-clipped with a publisher's repricing label. Lilley A5 (b) "Reprinted 1962". Powell's fourth novel, first published in 1936. First published by Heinemann in an edition of 3,000 copies on July 11, 1955. Reprinted in January 1962 with a Broom-Lynne jacket uniform in style with the books in the Music of Time series.This supplanted the Osbert Lancaster original jacket depicting the escape artist street performer. Small 8vo. Hard Cover. From the University of Chicago Press edition: "Written from a vantage point both high and necessarily narrow, Powell s early novels nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would become a substantial part of his oeuvre: pride, greed, and what makes people behave as they do. Filled with eccentric characters and piercing insights, Powell s work is achingly hilarious, human, and true." We specialize in the works of and about Anthony Powell. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!. Seller Inventory # 2003062
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good-. Osbert Lancaster (jacket) (illustrator). New Edition. light wear to book and jacket, top edge dusty. Agents & Patients was Powell's fourth novel originally published in 1936 by Duckworth. It is published here in a new editon after the success of the very first volumes of A Dance to the Music of Time. Lilley A5 (b) Published in this new edition in an edition of 3,000 copies on July 11, 1955. It has the Osbert Lancaster original jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. From the University of Chicago Press edition: "Written from a vantage point both high and necessarily narrow, Powell s early novels nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would become a substantial part of his oeuvre: pride, greed, and what makes people behave as they do. Filled with eccentric characters and piercing insights, Powell s work is achingly hilarious, human, and true." Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!. Seller Inventory # 011964
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