{"product_id":"9780099472384-a-question-of-upbringing","title":"A Question of Upbringing","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe opening novel in Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNOW IN ITS 75TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘He is, as Proust was before him, the great chronicler of his culture in his time.’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘One of the great novel-sequences in English Literature.’ \u003c\/b\u003eWilliam Boyd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Wonderfully observed . true, funny, stylistically dazzling.’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Now in its 75th anniversary year, this first volume is ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this first volume, Nick Jenkins, freshly introduced to the ebbs and flows of life at boarding school in the 1920s, spends his time in the company of his new friends: Peter Templer, Charles Stringham, and Kenneth Widmerpool.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough their days are filled with visits from relatives and boyish pranks, usually at the expense of their housemaster, Le Bas, a disastrous trip in Templer’s car threatens their friendship. As the school year comes to a close, the young men are faced with the prospect of adulthood and, with it, finding their place in the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for 'A Dance to the Music of Time’\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A world as rich as Joyce's on the one hand and P. G. Wodehouse’s on the other.’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘One of the great novel-sequences in English Literature.’ \u003cb\u003eWilliam Boyd\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘One of the greatest pleasures of my reading life.’ \u003cb\u003eMichael Palin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘An epic, elegant masterpiece.’ \u003cb\u003eLauren Groff\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A joyous experience.’ \u003cb\u003eRoddy Doyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘An intricately wrought work of art.’ \u003cb\u003eJohn Banville\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘The finest long comic novel that England has produced.’ \u003cb\u003eAnthony Burgess\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Mr Powell’s imagination is inexhaustible.’ \u003cb\u003eEvelyn Waugh\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘One of English fiction’s few twentieth-century masterpieces.’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘There is no other novelist whose work gives so much or such consistent pleasure.’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary\u003cbr\u003eSupplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56450657288566,"sku":"9780099472384","price":8.51,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32164787.jpg?v=1760453728","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780099472384-a-question-of-upbringing","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}