To Keep The Ball Rolling: The Memoirs Of Anthony Powell, Volume Ii: Messengers Of Day
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Anthony Powell — one of Britain's most celebrated novelists and the mastermind behind the monumental twelve-volume sequence A Dance to the Music of Time — turns his razor-sharp wit and meticulous eye inward in Messengers of Day, the second volume of his four-part memoir series, To Keep the Ball Rolling. This instalment chronicles Powell's formative years in London during the late 1920s, capturing his entry into the bustling world of publishing at Duckworth & Co., his early literary friendships, and the vivid social landscape of a generation poised between the aftermath of one war and the shadow of another. Powell writes with the same elegant precision and wry detachment that defines his fiction, presenting a portrait of interwar London that is as much a document of a vanished era as it is a personal narrative. The memoir illuminates the figures — writers, artists, and eccentrics — who populated his world and left their mark on his literary imagination, offering readers an invaluable key to the inspirations behind A Dance to the Music of Time. For admirers of Powell's fiction and students of twentieth-century British letters alike, Messengers of Day is an indispensable and quietly revelatory account of a young writer finding his voice in a world on the cusp of irreversible change.
Author: Anthony Powell
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Anthony Powell — one of Britain's most celebrated novelists and the mastermind behind the monumental twelve-volume sequence A Dance to the Music of Time — turns his razor-sharp wit and meticulous eye inward in Messengers of Day, the second volume of his four-part memoir series, To Keep the Ball Rolling. This instalment chronicles Powell's formative years in London during the late 1920s, capturing his entry into the bustling world of publishing at Duckworth & Co., his early literary friendships, and the vivid social landscape of a generation poised between the aftermath of one war and the shadow of another. Powell writes with the same elegant precision and wry detachment that defines his fiction, presenting a portrait of interwar London that is as much a document of a vanished era as it is a personal narrative. The memoir illuminates the figures — writers, artists, and eccentrics — who populated his world and left their mark on his literary imagination, offering readers an invaluable key to the inspirations behind A Dance to the Music of Time. For admirers of Powell's fiction and students of twentieth-century British letters alike, Messengers of Day is an indispensable and quietly revelatory account of a young writer finding his voice in a world on the cusp of irreversible change.