By Anthony Powell
Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the track of Time bargains a matchless landscape of twentieth-century London. Now, for the 1st time in many years, readers within the usa can learn the books of Dance as they have been initially published—as twelve person novels—but with a twenty-first-century twist: they’re to be had in basic terms as e-books.
The moment quantity, A Buyer’s Market (1952),finds younger Nick Jenkins suffering to set up himself in London. Amid the fever of the Nineteen Twenties, he attends formal dinners and wild events; makes his first tentative forays into the worlds of artwork, tradition, and bohemian existence; and suffers his first disappointments in love. outdated acquaintances come and move, however the paths they as soon as shared are swiftly diverging: Stringham is settling right into a lifetime of debauchery and drink, Templer is plunging into the area of commercial, and Widmerpool, even though nonetheless a determine of out-of-place grotesquerie, is still unbowed, convinced in his personal significance and eventual good fortune. A Buyer’s Market is a amazing portrait of the pleasures and anxieties of early maturity, set opposed to a backdrop of London existence and tradition at considered one of its so much bubbling moments.
"Anthony Powell is the easiest dwelling English novelist via a long way. His admirers are addicts, allow us to face it, held in thrall by means of a magician."--Chicago Tribune
"A publication which creates an international and explores it intensive, which ponders altering relationships and values, which creates brilliantly dwelling and numerous characters after which watches them develop and alter of their milieu. . . . Powell's international is as huge and as advanced as Proust's."--Elizabeth Janeway, New York Times
"One of crucial works of fiction because the moment global battle. . . . the radical seemed, because it all started, whatever like a comedy of manners; then, for your time, like a tragedy of manners; now like a tremendously unique, deeply depression, but one way or the other brave assertion approximately human experience."--Naomi Bliven, New Yorker
“The so much very good and penetrating novelist we have.”--Kingsley Amis