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Anthony Powell: A Life
by Michael Barber
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- 1st Edition Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1585676187
- ISBN 13
- 9781585676187
- Seller
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Steubenville, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Duckworth Overlook, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition Very Good/Very Good. 1st Edition (Duckworth Overlook - 2004) No marks noted in text. Binding is tight and square. Gently read. . . . . . . . . . From Dust Jacket Flap: In the first full-length biography of Anthony Powell, Michael Barber--publisher, journalist, and man-about-town--takes a close look at the man and the writer. He finds someone whose temperament was often at war with his upbringing. The son of an army officer, educated at Eton and Oxford, Powell chose as his closest friends people like Malcolm Muggeridge and the composer Constant Lambert, who were not out of the top drawer, or the one below it. Although happily married for more than sixty years to Lady Violet Pakenham, the daughter of an earl, he admitted that he had always been attracted by girls who looked as if they'd slept under a bush for a week. Powell believed that creative writing was, like alchemy, a mysterious, indefinable process by which experience became art. Michael Barber focuses on the experience that provided Powell with his raw material. He pays particular attention to the entre-deux-guerres, that sharply divided cultural interlude when the artists and good-timers with whom Powell identified in the twenties were followed, in the thirties, by the politicians and the prigs. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookmarx Bookstore (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 91099
- Title
- Anthony Powell: A Life
- Author
- Michael Barber
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - 1st Edition Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1585676187
- ISBN 13
- 9781585676187
- Publisher
- Duckworth Overlook
- Place of Publication
- London ; Woodstock, Ny
- Date Published
- 2004
- Pages
- 256
Terms of Sale
Bookmarx Bookstore
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About the Seller
Bookmarx Bookstore
Biblio member since 2023
Steubenville, Ohio
About Bookmarx Bookstore
We are a small independent bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio, with a smattering of everything but a special love for the Catholic, Classic, and Literary.
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