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To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell Hardcover - 2001
by Anthony Powell
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To earn the reputation of a literary giant within the generation of Waugh, Orwell, and Greene is no mean feat. To do so with the grace and genius that characterized Anthony Powell-whose twelve-volume A Dance to the Music of Time is possibly the only English-language work to match the majestic scope of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past-is nothing short of spectacular. Yet Powell himself remains absent from his writing; he was, said the New York Times, "a writer of mordant succinctness who rewards the reader while revealing little of himself."
Powell did eventually reveal himself in four volumes of memoirs published between 1976 and 1982 with the titles of Infants of the Spring, Messengers of Day, Faces in My Time, and The Strangers All Are Gone. This edition of Anthony Powell's memoirs an abridged and revised version of those volumes, a version that has never before been published in the United States. The result is not only a fascinating view of Powell as a man and an author but also a unique history of British literary society and the social elite Powell lampooned and moved within from the 1920s through the 1980s. From Eton and Oxford to his life as a novelist and critic, Powell observes all-the obscenity trial sparked by Lady Chatterley's Lover; Shirley Temple's libel suit after Graham Greene reviewed Wee Willie Winkie "with even more than his usual verve"-and paints vivid portraits of Kingsley Amis, V.S. Naipaul, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and countless others. Most importantly, Powell's lively memoirs banish all thought of the man as a relic of the British gentry. He was a modernist, a Tory, and more than a little interested in genealogy and peerage, but a man who, according to Ferdinand Mount, "miraculously knew what life was like."Details
- Title To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell
- Author Anthony Powell
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 472
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Date 2001-04-09
- Abridged Yes
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Abridged, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780226677217 / 0226677214
- Weight 1.66 lbs (0.75 kg)
- Dimensions 9.32 x 6.33 x 1.23 in (23.67 x 16.08 x 3.12 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Novelists, English - 20th century, Powell, Anthony
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00050780
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- Atlantic Monthly, 06/01/2001, Page 94
- Choice, 10/01/2001, Page 311
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