- Paperback: 896 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; Four Books in One edition (1 Jan 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099268140
- ISBN-13: 978-0099268147
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 5.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 324,683 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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ALMS FOR OBLIVION is a series of ten novels, all telling separate stories but at the same time linked together by the characters they have in common: soldiers and dons, men of business, politicians and writers. Full of hearty rancour, they form a scathing chronicle of the upper echelons of postwar English society, and this omnibus edition contains the first four volumes of the celebrated series: FIELDING GRAY, FRIENDS IN LOW PLACES, THE SABRE SQUADRON and THE RICH PAY LATE.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
After discovering Simon Raven roughly six weeks ago, I scrummed eight of his books, almost in one go.
Four of these were: The Rich Pay Late, The Sabre Squadron, Friends in Low Places, and, Fielding Gray.
These four are the first written in the Alms for Oblivion series which I rate higher than Powell's or Snow's.
But in saying that, I enjoy the well developed low characters, whose morals are not of our sickly politically correct age.
The cunning.
I was put on to him via a blurb in Stephen Fry's book 'The Liar', which said The Liar is a mixture of PG Wodehouse and Simon Raven. After reading Raven, and, of course, having read many Wodehouse's, I feel so happy to know how a cocktail of all three might taste!
Raven's writing is a classically educated dream. There are no pretentions or confusions: he is not writing to show how clever he is, but has a vast world of characters he wishes you to know through and through.
Read This Book.
Four of these were: The Rich Pay Late, The Sabre Squadron, Friends in Low Places, and, Fielding Gray.
These four are the first written in the Alms for Oblivion series which I rate higher than Powell's or Snow's.
But in saying that, I enjoy the well developed low characters, whose morals are not of our sickly politically correct age.
The cunning.
I was put on to him via a blurb in Stephen Fry's book 'The Liar', which said The Liar is a mixture of PG Wodehouse and Simon Raven. After reading Raven, and, of course, having read many Wodehouse's, I feel so happy to know how a cocktail of all three might taste!
Raven's writing is a classically educated dream. There are no pretentions or confusions: he is not writing to show how clever he is, but has a vast world of characters he wishes you to know through and through.
Read This Book.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Simon Raven is a greatly underrated writer who has been unjustly ignored in recent years. This series in particular is a delight - witty, black, entertaining and pertinent - Raven slyly skewers his targets with inventive glee.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Sheer perfection. Captures the mood of the period in an easy, fluid and rhythmical manner. Never afraid to tackle difficult themes.
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