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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Arrow; New edition edition (5 May 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099472465
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099472469
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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"I think it is now becoming clear that A Dance to the Music of Time is going to become the greatest modern novel since Ulysses."
--Clive James
"I would rather read Mr Powell than any English novelist now writing."
--Kingsley Amis

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The seventh novel in Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time

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4.0 out of 5 stars Best so far, 15 Feb 2010
This review is from: The Valley Of Bones (Dance to the Music of Time 07) (Paperback)
Book Seven sees Nicholas Jenkins trying to cope with army life and meeting a range of new, interesting characters(many more real than the artistic hangers-on and aristicrats that clog up the earlier novels in the sequence). This is a book about coping with a particular kind of boredom- militairy routine. You want to hear more about Captain Gwatkin, Bithel, Pennistone et al. It is never boring and shows the petty tragedies and triumphs of army life away from the front line, in a vivid and humorous way.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The Valley of Bones, 27 Nov 2009
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The Valley of Bones is the seventh book in the Dance to the Music of Time Series but can be read as anovel in its own right. Jenkins joins his regiment in Wales as Second lieutenant. There are an array of incredible characters throughout the book including the eccentric Liieutenant Bithel, the extrovert Odo Stevens and Captain Gwatkin. The book achieves an amazing balance between humour and tragedy and paints a vivid picture of rural army life in the 1940s.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Another first rate novel in Powell's excellent series, 29 Oct 2011
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If you only know the Dance to the Music of Time by the TV series or if this is the first novel in the series you have read, then you may well be rather confused. The TV series uses elements from chapter three in this novel but omits Jenkins' time with the Welsh regiment which forms the majority of the book. And, though it is set in 1939-1940, don't expect any military action.

Instead, we get a splendid evocation of pretty dull soldiering in Wales and Northern Ireland during the Phoney War - compare this with the first novel of Waugh's Sword Of Honour trilogy. Those experienced in office work and administration will recognise some of these scenes. Jenkins deals with a variety of characters; chiefly the hard working but vainglorious Captain Gwatkin, the up and coming Idwal Kedward and the inept Bithel, as well as the men from the ranks; competent CSM Cadwallader, the impish Corporal Gwylt and the unpleasant Sayce.

But there is a window in the civilian world when Jenkins visits his pregnant wife, and meets up with various members of the Tolland family, Dicky Umfraville, Buster, et al. And he learns more about his one time lover, Jean, from Jimmy Brent. A new character, Odo Stevens, appears and he will recur, unlike most of Jenkins' WW2 comrades. The closing few pages reintroduce us to the series' Nemesis and he's back with a vengeance.

Readers of the first six novels will enjoy this, but it has less value to new readers.
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