{"product_id":"2026100009356-secondhand-hearing-secret-harmonies","title":"Hearing Secret Harmonies","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: repr.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe curtain falls — but not without ceremony — on one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary sequences in Anthony Powell's Hearing Secret Harmonies, the twelfth and final volume of A Dance to the Music of Time. Narrator Nick Jenkins navigates the twilight years of his social world, observing the rise of countercultural mysticism, the lingering ghosts of old acquaintances, and the irrepressible resurgence of the magnificent villain Widmerpool, who has now reinvented himself as a devotee of a sinister occult commune.\n\nPowell's signature prose — cool, ironic, and immaculately observant — renders the passage of time with an elegiac precision that few novelists have matched. This concluding volume distills the grand themes of the entire sequence: the caprice of ambition, the comedy of human self-reinvention, and the quiet, inexorable current of mortality that runs beneath even the most farcical of lives. For readers who have followed Nick Jenkins from the drawing rooms of the 1920s to this strange, altered England of the 1970s, the final pages carry the resonant weight of a life truly witnessed — leaving one to wonder whether any character in modern fiction has been observed with quite such devastating, affectionate clarity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49216192970971,"sku":"2026100009356-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/3de61b46-9178-4b58-babd-2b537ad5ebbd.png?v=1788404992","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009356-secondhand-hearing-secret-harmonies","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}