What's Become of Waring? - Hardcover

Powell, Anthony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 043459914X ISBN 13: 9780434599141

Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd, 1986

Synopsis

Reissued simultaneously with two other Anthony Powell novels, "Afternoon Men" and "From a View to a Death", this is a humorous story which avoids degenerating into farce.

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Review

"A must for Powell devotees."--Edmund Fuller "New York Times Book Review "

"Gratifyingly eccentric."--Paul Pickrel "Harper's Magazine "

"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 "

"The quest for the historical Waring becomes the wildly entangled pursuit and exposure of a literary charlatan, and involves a gallery of British comic types. . . . There is laughter all the way. . . . A must for Powell devotees."--Edmund Fuller "New York Times Book Review "

"Gratifyingly eccentric."--Paul Pickrel "Harper s Magazine ""

The quest for the historical Waring becomes the wildly entangled pursuit and exposure of a literary charlatan, and involves a gallery of British comic types. . . . There is laughter all the way. . . . A must for Powell devotees. --Edmund Fuller "New York Times Book Review ""

Gratifyingly eccentric. --Paul Pickrel "Harper s Magazine ""

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 ""

Book Description

The hugely successful early novel which established Anthony Powell as a leading voice in English comic fiction, What's Become of Waring is the teasing and wittily contrived story about a famous but elsuive travel author who seems to have some very good reasons for concealing his life behind a screen of mystery.

Edition details

• Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 043459914X
• ISBN 13: 9780434599141
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 236