{"product_id":"2026200015613-secondhand-to-keep-the-ball-rolling-the-memoirs-of-anthony-powell","title":"To Keep The Ball Rolling: The Memoirs Of Anthony Powell","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew literary memoirs capture the texture of twentieth-century British cultural life with the precision, wit, and insider authority of To Keep the Ball Rolling, the collected reminiscences of one of England's most celebrated novelists. Anthony Powell — best known for his monumental twelve-volume sequence A Dance to the Music of Time — chronicles his journey from a privileged Eton and Oxford education through the glittering, often treacherous social worlds of interwar London, wartime service, and the post-war literary establishment, drawing vivid portraits of the artists, aristocrats, and eccentrics who populated his remarkable life.\n\nPowell's prose style is characteristically dry, ironic, and finely observed, turning even the most fleeting social encounter into a study of human nature and the workings of class, ambition, and friendship. Originally published across four volumes — Infants of the Spring, Messengers of Day, Faces in My Time, and The Strangers All Are Gone — this abridged Penguin edition distils the essence of those years into a single, compulsively readable volume. Kingsley Amis, a close friend and admirer, declared it marvellously entertaining, and it is difficult to disagree; Powell's memoir is not merely a record of a life well-lived, but an indispensable document of a vanished England that continues to fascinate.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203222577371,"sku":"2026200015613-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/b5c0ad92-9b9a-49a4-875e-cdcb60cef536.png?v=1788146076","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015613-secondhand-to-keep-the-ball-rolling-the-memoirs-of-anthony-powell","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}