{"product_id":"a-dance-to-the-music-anthony-powell-9780226677163","title":"A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement","description":"Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as \"brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times,\" A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, Nick Jenkins and his friends confront sex, society, business, and art. In the second volume they move to London in a whirl of marriage and adulteries, fashions and frivolities, personal triumphs and failures. These books \"provide an unsurpassed picture, at once gay and melancholy, of social and artistic life in Britain between the wars\" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.). The third volume follows Nick into army life and evokes London during the blitz. In the climactic final volume, England has won the war and must now count the losses. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the background of this second volume of \u003ci\u003eA Dance to the Music of Time\u003c\/i\u003e, the rumble of distant events in Germany and Spain presages the storm of World War II. In England, even as the whirl of marriages and adulteries, fashions and frivolities, personal triumphs and failures gathers speed, men and women find themselves on the brink of fateful choices. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncludes these novels: \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt Lady Molly's \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCasanova's Chinese Restaurant \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Kindly Ones\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician.\"--\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A book which creates a world and explores it in depth, which ponders changing relationships and values, which creates brilliantly living and diverse characters and then watches them grow and change in their milieu. . . . Powell's world is as large and as complex as Proust's.\"--Elizabeth Janeway, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One of the most important works of fiction since the Second World War. . . . The novel looked, as it began, something like a comedy of manners; then, for a while, like a tragedy of manners; now like a vastly entertaining, deeply melancholy, yet somehow courageous statement about human experience.\"--Naomi Bliven, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anthony Powell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226677168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226677163\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 746\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/1995","brand":"Anthony Powell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44051062292735,"sku":"9780226677163","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f4631faf-fe2a-46bc-ab77-62ec82ec609f.jpg?v=1685010865","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-dance-to-the-music-anthony-powell-9780226677163","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}