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Paperback: 223 pages
Publisher: Fontana (1977)
ISBN-10: 000614540X
ISBN-13: 978-0006145400

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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The third novel in Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Anthony Powell was born in 1905. After working in publishing and as a scriptwriter, he began to write for the Daily Telegraph in the mid-1930s. He served in the army during World War II and subsequently became the fiction reviewer on the TLS. Next came five years as literary editor of Punch. He was appointed a Companion of Honour in 1988. In addition to the twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time, Anthony Powell is the author of seven other novels, and four volumes of memoirs, To Keep the Ball Rolling. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Another great volume, 8 Aug 2009

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This review is from: The Acceptance World: v.3: Vol 3 (Dance to the Music of Time 03) (Paperback)

This is the third instalment of Powell's 12 volume series, A Dance to the Music of Time and cannot really be understood without having read the two previous volumes. Thos familiar only with the 1998 TV version will find that the last thirty minutes of episode 1 are covered here, albiet in far more detail.

This one covers the early 1930s, and there are five chapters. In them, the narrator, Nicholas Jenkins, gets his fortune read, has dinner at the Ritz, begins a love affair, attends an art exhibition and goes to a school reunion. Put it like that and it seems pretty tame.

However, one doesn't read these books for action. What they concern are a large number of characters and how they interact with one another and how life changes. As in previous books, there is a lot of narration and comment on the conversation here.

New characters appear, such as Dicky Umfraville and Mrs Erdleigh, who introduces the occult to the novels. Old characters, such as Quiggin, Members, Templer, Jean, Stringham, Le Bas, Uncle Giles and Widmerpool reappear, and we are glad to meet them again, especially Templer, who had not featured in the previous book. Evelyn Waugh criticised this book because there wasn't much of Widmerpool, but he makes an important reappearance at the end, and his new found power, both intellectually and physically, are demonstrated, whereas previously his ineffectuality had been more apparent. His comment about the current (c1931) economic crisis being due to foolish lending policies has a resonnance today (2009), too.

There are many key developments for most of the characters here, with the rise and fall of marriages and affairs being one. Power struggles, such as that of Members and Quiggin also occur, as well as Widmerpool's rise.

Powell writes very well and his narrator's observations are usually shrewd and worth reading.

I enjoyed reading this (again), but recall that the first reading is not always easy.

The next novel (At Lady Molly's) can only beckon...

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