Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time - Tapa dura

Spurling, Hilary

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9780241143834: Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time

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ISBN 10: 0241143837 ISBN 13: 9780241143834

Editorial: Hamish Hamilton, 2017

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Cr�ticas:

[An] excellent and vivid biography... exemplary and deliciously readable (The Guardian)

One of our generation's greatest biographers (London Review Bookshop)

Meticulous... Where Spurling excels is in her punchy analyses of his novels and her understanding of the writer's life (The Financial Times)

Spurling has triumphed...A compelling portrait of a lost Englishman (The Observer)

This is a fine biography by a writer who knew Powell well, and who understands how writers think (The Spectator)

Witty, spirited, richly crowded with incident and character, and a joy to read (Prospect)

An accomplished biography of a great writer (Tatler)

Spurling has brought him to humane and generous life (The Daily Telegraph)

A sharp, graceful writer who has immersed herself in the territory... wonderfully vivid (The Mail on Sunday)

An accomplished biographer... her pen portraits are deft and vivid... brisk and bold in her evaluation of a character or retelling of an incident. Her comments on Powell's writing are always illuminating (The New Statesman)

Rese�a del editor:

BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 in The Sunday Times, Spectator, Mail on Sunday, Observer andFinancial Times

'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

The long-awaited portrait of a literary master from one of our generation's greatest biographers, author of the definitive and acclaimed Matisse: The Life

Anthony Powell: the literary genius who gave us A Dance to the Music of Time, an undisputed classic of English literature. Spanning twelve spectacular volumes and written over twenty-five years, his comic masterpiece teems with idiosyncratic characters, capturing twentieth century Britain through war and peace.

Drawing on Powell's letters and journals, and the memories of those who knew him, Hilary Spurling explores his life. Investigating the friends, relations, lovers, acquaintances, fools and geniuses who surrounded him, she reveals the comical and tragic events that inspired one of the greatest fictions of the age.

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