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To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell
 
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To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell [Abridged] (Hardcover)

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  • Hardcover: 472 pages
  • Publisher: Chicago University Press; abridged edition edition (17 April 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0226677214
  • ISBN-13: 978-0226677217
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.7 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 647,122 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This is an abridged version of Powell's four volumes memoirs, which were published between 1976 and 1982. Anthony Powell earnt the reputation of being a literary giant within the generation of Waugh, Orwell and Greene. He is probably best known for his 12 volume work "A Dance to the Music of Time". These memoirs reveal Powell the man and author, and also provide an inside view of the British literary scene and social elite, from the 1920's to the 1980s. Powell observes the obsenity trial sparked by "Lady Chatterley's Lover" and Shirley Temple's libel suit after Graham Greene reviewed "Wee Willie Winkie" with "more than his usual verve". He also paints vivid portraits of other authors, such as Kingsley Amis, V.S. Naipaul, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A must for those who can't get enough of "Dance", 21 May 2007
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I don't usually read memoirs or biographies because I think they are a second-hand (and second-best) approach to literature, and I certainly don't recommend this book to anyone who has not read the author's novels. This time though, having spent so much time reading "Dance" and listening to its audio version by Simon Callow, I thought I owed it to myself to dig a little deeper into this remarkable author. Most of all, I hoped this book would convey some of the atmosphere of "Dance", of which I cannot have enough. I think it did. The people and the places of these memoirs are not to be regarded as "keys" to the book but they certainly were inspirational to "Dance" and AP often mentions the similarities and differences between those people and their fictional counterparts. There is some name-dropping and, of course, the vast majority of the names will remain unknown to me but their doings and idiosyncrasies, described in the usual AP style, are interesting in their own right. It has been said that AP revealed little about himself in his memoirs. This is true but therein lies, maybe, the strength of AP's approach to writing: a good novelist, according to AP, is one more interested in other people than in himself/herself. This is the principle followed in this book.
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