Anthony Powell, Author University of Chicago Press $50 (480p) ISBN 978-0-226-67712-5
English novelist and critic Powell ( Miscellaneous Verdicts ) here presents a collection of his intelligent and witty book reviews written over the past 40 years for the Daily Telegraph and other British publications. The books reviewed are...
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Anthony Powell, Author Heinemann Educational Books $0 (255p) ISBN 978-0-434-59926-4
The Fisher King is the maimed, exiled, impotent, mysterious figure of Arthurian legend. The analogous figure in Powell's first full-length novel since his 12-volume A Dance to the Music of Time is Saul Henchman, a war-wounded, crippled photographer...
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Michael Barber, Author, Anthony Powell, Author . Overlook/Duckworth $29.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-58567-618-7
"An uninspiring figure, to say the least." So wrote Anthony Powell (1905–2000) in his journals about his future first biographer, after Barber (The Captain: The Life of Simon Raven
) interviewed him in 1983. It's a tribute to the...
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