A Dance to the Music of Time
by Anthony Powell
Buy on AmazonPowell does everything a novelist can do, from flights of aesthetic passion to romance to comedy high and low. His dialogue is extraordinary. Anthony Powell taught me to write.
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"Powell does everything a novelist can do, from flights of aesthetic passion to romance to comedy high and low. His dialogue is extraordinary. Anthony Powell taught me to write."
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"Though I was reluctant I became a fan, devouring all 12 volumes. We follow the central character, Nicholas Jenkins, from school days through World War II to eventual old age as a respected novelist."
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