The ninth novel in Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time
Anthony Powell was an only child, born in 1905. As a young man he worked for a crumbling publishing business whilst trying to find time to write novels. He moved in a bohemian world of struggling writers and artists, which was to provide the raw material for much of his fiction. During the Second World War he served in Military Intelligence Liaison. He subsequently became a fiction reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement and for five years he was the literary editor of the now-defunct magazine Punch. Meanwhile he continued to work on the twelve-novel sequence 'A Dance to the Music of Time'. He was the author of seven other novels, and four volumes of memoirs. His many reviews for the Daily Telegraph are also published in collected volumes. Anthony Powell died in March 2000.
One of the great novel-sequences in English Literature – a
wonderful portrait of society, full of insight into the
complexities of human behaviour, richly detailed and shrewdly
funny.
*William Boyd*
Discovering Anthony Powell’s "A Dance to the Music of Time" has
been one of the greatest pleasures of my reading life. The cool
elegance of the prose, the deliciously dry humour, the confident
choreography of his characters made for an incomparable treat.
Twelve volumes was simply not enough.
*Michael Palin*
“A Dance To The Music of Time” is an epic, elegant masterpiece, so
full of lightness and comedy that you're unprepared for how it
quietly wrecks your heart.
*Lauren Groff*
Powell’s novel sequence is at once a rich chronicle of 20th-century
English social life and an intricately wrought work of art. It is
also extremely funny, in its sly fashion.
*John Banville*
Reading “A Dance to the Music of Time” was such a joyous
experience, I remember wishing there'd been more than twelve
volumes.
*Roddy Doyle*
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