{"product_id":"a-dance-to-the-music-of-time-first-movement-9780226677149","title":"A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement","description":"Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e as brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times, \u003ci\u003eA Dance to the Music of Time\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003eFour very different young men on the threshold of manhood dominate this opening volume of \u003ci\u003eA Dance to the Music of Time\u003c\/i\u003e. The narrator, Jenkins--a budding writer--shares a room with Templer, already a passionate womanizer, and Stringham, aristocratic and reckless. Widermerpool, as hopelessly awkward as he is intensely ambitious, lurks on the periphery of their world. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, these four gain their initiations into sex, society, business, and art. Considered a masterpiece of modern fiction, Powell's epic creates a rich panorama of life in England between the wars. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncludes these novels: \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Question of Upbringing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Buyer's Market \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Acceptance World\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnthony 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\u003eA 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\u003eOne 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\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226677149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 732\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.02h x 5.38w x 1.58d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/1995\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Anthony Powell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36635220803740,"sku":"9780226677149","price":23.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_6f613f83-90ef-46d8-82b9-ead8abf1e4a1.jpg?v=1603838915","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-dance-to-the-music-of-time-first-movement-9780226677149","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}