{"product_id":"to-keep-the-ball-rolling-anthony-powell-9780226677217","title":"To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell","description":"To earn the reputation of a literary giant within the generation of Waugh, Orwell, and Greene is no mean feat. To do so with the grace and genius that characterized Anthony Powell--whose twelve-volume \u003ci\u003eA Dance to the Music of Time\u003c\/i\u003e is possibly the only English-language work to match the majestic scope of Proust's \u003ci\u003eRemembrance of Things Past\u003c\/i\u003e--is nothing short of spectacular. Yet Powell himself remains absent from his writing; he was, said the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \"a writer of mordant succinctness who rewards the reader while revealing little of himself.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePowell did eventually reveal himself in four volumes of memoirs, published between 1976 and 1982. This edition of Anthony Powell's \u003ci\u003eMemoirs\u003c\/i\u003e is an abridged and revised version of those volumes, a version that has never before been published in this form in the United States. The result is not only a fascinating view of Powell as a man and an author but also a unique history of British literary society and the social elite Powell lampooned and moved within from the twenties through the eighties. From Eton and Oxford to his life as a novelist and critic, Powell observes all--the obscenity trial sparked by \u003ci\u003eLady Chatterley's Lover\u003c\/i\u003e; Shirley Temple's libel suit after Graham Greene reviewed \u003ci\u003eWee Willie Winkie\u003c\/i\u003e \"with even more than his usual verve\"--and paints vivid portraits of Kingsley Amis, V.S. Naipaul, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and countless others. Most importantly, Powell's lively memoirs banish all thought of the man as a relic of the British gentry. He was a modernist, a Tory, and more than a little interested in genealogy and peerage, but a man who, according to Ferdinand Mount, \"miraculously knew what life was like.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anthony Powell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226677214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226677217\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 04\/09\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.32h x 6.33w x 1.23d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2001 pg. 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2001 pg. 311\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2001 pg. 150","brand":"Anthony Powell","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43995504247039,"sku":"9780226677217","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d003bc0f-fe04-4444-9153-3b2afb1a6b14.jpg?v=1683336192","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/to-keep-the-ball-rolling-anthony-powell-9780226677217","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}