Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears.Page Condition: Slightly yellowed/aged. Markings: Ex-library with usual markings. Binding: Intact, pages firm. Stickers/Labels: Ex-libris
A cornerstone of twentieth-century British fiction, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant is the fifth volume in Anthony Powell's monumental twelve-part sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time. Set against the bohemian backdrop of London's artistic and musical circles in the years leading up to World War II, the novel chronicles the narrator Nicholas Jenkins's immersion in a world of struggling composers, eccentric artists, and ill-fated marriages. Powell's prose is characterised by its detached irony and elegant wit, capturing the fragile nature of human ambition and romantic entanglement with surgical precision. The narrative masterfully illustrates how friendships are tested and destinies shaped by the gathering shadows of an approaching war, cementing Powell's reputation as the supreme chronicler of English social life in the modern age.
Author: Anthony Powell
Format: Hardback
Published: 1977, Heinemann
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears.Page Condition: Slightly yellowed/aged. Markings: Ex-library with usual markings. Binding: Intact, pages firm. Stickers/Labels: Ex-libris
A cornerstone of twentieth-century British fiction, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant is the fifth volume in Anthony Powell's monumental twelve-part sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time. Set against the bohemian backdrop of London's artistic and musical circles in the years leading up to World War II, the novel chronicles the narrator Nicholas Jenkins's immersion in a world of struggling composers, eccentric artists, and ill-fated marriages. Powell's prose is characterised by its detached irony and elegant wit, capturing the fragile nature of human ambition and romantic entanglement with surgical precision. The narrative masterfully illustrates how friendships are tested and destinies shaped by the gathering shadows of an approaching war, cementing Powell's reputation as the supreme chronicler of English social life in the modern age.