Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
Autor Hilary Spurlingen Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 oct 2018
'A landmark biography'The Times, Books of the Year
'One of our generation's greatest biographers'London Review of Books
'Witty, spirited, richly crowded with incident and character - a joy to read'Prospect
From the author of the prize-winningMatisse The Mastercomes an essential biography of one of 20th century Britain's greatest literary minds
Anthony Powell: the literary genius who gave usA Dance to the Music of Time, an epic twelve spectacular volume cyle of novels about twentieth century British society. This comic masterpiece teems with idiosyncratic characters, capturing Britain through war and peace in all its eccentricity. And it was inspired by the author's own life immersed in rich social intrigue - debutante balls, penniless muses, publisher feuds, summers on the French Riviera, weekend parties at country houses, and friendships with everyone from Evelyn Waugh to Graham Greene to VS Naipaul...
Hilary Spurling brings all this back to vivid life, investigating the friends, relations, lovers and acquaintances, fools and savants who surrounded Anthony Powell, and who he immortalised in his magnificent literary legacy.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141030791
ISBN-10: 0141030798
Pagini: 528
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141030798
Pagini: 528
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Hilary
Spurlingis
the
author
of
numerous
biographies,
includingIvy
When
Young:
The
Early
Life
of
Ivy
Compton-Burnett
1884-1919;Paul
Scott:
A
Life;
a
two-volume
biography
of
Matisse,The
Unknown
MatisseandMatisse
the
Master(also
published
in
the
abridged
single-volumeMatisse:
The
Life);
andBurying
the
Bones.
She
won
the
Rose
Mary
Crawshay
Prize
and
the
Duff
Cooper
Prize
forIvy
When
Young,the
Whitbread
Book
of
the
Year
Award
forMatisse
the
Master,
and
the
James
Tait
Black
Memorial
Prize
forBurying
the
Bones.
In
2016
she
won
the
Biographers'
Club
Lifetime
Achievement
Award.
Recenzii
[An]
excellent
andvividbiography...
exemplary
anddeliciously
readable
One of our generation's greatest biographers
Meticulous... Where Spurling excels is in her punchy analyses of his novels and her understanding of the writer's life
Spurling has triumphed...A compelling portrait of a lost Englishman
This is a fine biography by a writer who knew Powell well, and who understands how writers think
An accomplished biography of a great writer
Spurling has brought him to humane and generous life
A sharp, graceful writer who has immersed herself in the territory...wonderfully vivid
An accomplished biographer... her pen portraits aredeft and vivid...briskandboldin her evaluation of a character or retelling of an incident. Her comments on Powell's writing are always illuminating
Anyone feeling gloomy in their early 50s, worried they've been leading rather a futile life for half a century, should read this biography
[A] superb biography... beautifully written, meticulously tracked. Hilary Spurling shows a subtle understanding of her subject and his work. She demonstrates an almost uncanny ability to portray the huge cast of characters that floods in colourful profusion across the stage. Her identification of the originals of the characters inA Danceis masterly
An often surprising and always brilliant picture of English upper-middle-class intellectual life in the mid-20th century: drunkards, journalists, musicians, aristocrats, hangers-on and the odd genius. I couldn't put it down
An exciting story, from its unhappy beginnings to its triumphant ending. You can't read this without your fingers itching to get at hisDancenovels, whether for the first or the 15th time
Written with an elegance that does full credit to its subject
Meticulous biography. Spurling excels "in her punchy analyses of his novels and her understanding of the writer's life
Worth the wait; intimate and judicious, it doubles as an alternative history of a lost kind of Englishness
So readable... wonderfully vivid portraits of Powell's famous acquaintances
Richly and movingly enjoyable... a tapestry of Powell's contemporaries
Publisher's description. A biography of the comic writer Anthony Powell, author of the million-word masterpieceA Dance to the Music of Time,from renowned British biographer Hilary Spurling. An insightful and surprising look into what drove the writer widely regarded as the English Proust.
One of our generation's greatest biographers
Meticulous... Where Spurling excels is in her punchy analyses of his novels and her understanding of the writer's life
Spurling has triumphed...A compelling portrait of a lost Englishman
This is a fine biography by a writer who knew Powell well, and who understands how writers think
An accomplished biography of a great writer
Spurling has brought him to humane and generous life
A sharp, graceful writer who has immersed herself in the territory...wonderfully vivid
An accomplished biographer... her pen portraits aredeft and vivid...briskandboldin her evaluation of a character or retelling of an incident. Her comments on Powell's writing are always illuminating
Anyone feeling gloomy in their early 50s, worried they've been leading rather a futile life for half a century, should read this biography
[A] superb biography... beautifully written, meticulously tracked. Hilary Spurling shows a subtle understanding of her subject and his work. She demonstrates an almost uncanny ability to portray the huge cast of characters that floods in colourful profusion across the stage. Her identification of the originals of the characters inA Danceis masterly
An often surprising and always brilliant picture of English upper-middle-class intellectual life in the mid-20th century: drunkards, journalists, musicians, aristocrats, hangers-on and the odd genius. I couldn't put it down
An exciting story, from its unhappy beginnings to its triumphant ending. You can't read this without your fingers itching to get at hisDancenovels, whether for the first or the 15th time
Written with an elegance that does full credit to its subject
Meticulous biography. Spurling excels "in her punchy analyses of his novels and her understanding of the writer's life
Worth the wait; intimate and judicious, it doubles as an alternative history of a lost kind of Englishness
So readable... wonderfully vivid portraits of Powell's famous acquaintances
Richly and movingly enjoyable... a tapestry of Powell's contemporaries
Publisher's description. A biography of the comic writer Anthony Powell, author of the million-word masterpieceA Dance to the Music of Time,from renowned British biographer Hilary Spurling. An insightful and surprising look into what drove the writer widely regarded as the English Proust.