{"product_id":"to-keep-the-ball-rolling-the-memoirs-of-anthony-powell-univ-of-chicago-pr","title":"To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell (Univ of Chicago PR)","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eTo Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell (Univ of Chicago PR)\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eAnthony Powell\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780226677217\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniversity of Chicago Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2001\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e1\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e472\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eTo 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.\"\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell (Univ of Chicago PR) | Anthony Powell | Hardcover | 9780226677217 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks A 1751422","offer_id":48927868846232,"sku":"1751422","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/617vvilks8L.jpg?v=1777057546","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/to-keep-the-ball-rolling-the-memoirs-of-anthony-powell-univ-of-chicago-pr","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}