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Another novel in a series intended to develop, in aggregate, the master plan indicated by the title, The Music of Time. Powell's concept is vast; its manifestations, within the context of the total work, technically fine. The gloved touching of personalities, the groupings, helter-skelter meetings, congruences are forced by the times, present a chance pattern, inconclusive but a pattern nonetheless. Powell's characters are never transformed-they merely adapt. They are upper class, articulating, "riding through." In this latest and last, in the war trilogy, Jenkins is assigned to a War Office Section with the Allies of World War II. Somehow the times never seem quite out of joint and Widmerpool continues his career climb; Pennistone wittily regards a bureaucracy; Farebrother's jaunty buccaneering is further tolerated; the deaths of Stringham and Peter Templer are noted as blankly as the horror of an offstage holocaust. Odd entities are accepted as just that-a dreadful girl named, dreadfully, Pamela Flitton; a blind bat of a bureaucrat named Blackhead. Also foreign military; one hapless Prince; compeers recognized and noted-the cast is enormous, with the agreeable dissonance of chiming clocks. For those with an accrued interest in the complete work. (Kirkus Reviews)
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The ninth in a sequence of novels collectively titled "A Dance to the Music of Time". More than 300 characters are choreographed over a period of 70 years, starting with "A Question of Upbringing".
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Another novel in a series intended to develop, in aggregate, the master plan indicated by the title, The Music of Time. Powell's concept is vast; its manifestations, within the context of the total work, technically fine. The gloved touching of personalities, the groupings, helter-skelter meetings, congruences are forced by the times, present a chance pattern, inconclusive but a pattern nonetheless. Powell's characters are never transformed-they merely adapt. They are upper class, articulating, "riding through." In this latest and last, in the war trilogy, Jenkins is assigned to a War Office Section with the Allies of World War II. Somehow the times never seem quite out of joint and Widmerpool continues his career climb; Pennistone wittily regards a bureaucracy; Farebrother's jaunty buccaneering is further tolerated; the deaths of Stringham and Peter Templer are noted as blankly as the horror of an offstage holocaust. Odd entities are accepted as just that-a dreadful girl named, dreadfully, Pamela Flitton; a blind bat of a bureaucrat named Blackhead. Also foreign military; one hapless Prince; compeers recognized and noted-the cast is enormous, with the agreeable dissonance of chiming clocks. For those with an accrued interest in the complete work. (Kirkus Reviews)
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The ninth in a sequence of novels collectively titled "A Dance to the Music of Time". More than 300 characters are choreographed over a period of 70 years, starting with "A Question of Upbringing".
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