{"product_id":"9781804948040-to-keep-the-ball-rolling","title":"To Keep The Ball Rolling","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e**The abridged memoirs of Anthony Powell, with a new introduction from Louisa Young**\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Powell can offer many of the rewards of comic creation we find in a Dickens or a Jane Austen' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnthony Powell earned a reputation as a literary giant within the generation of Waugh, Orwell and Greene, best known for his twelve-volume work \u003ci\u003eA Dance to the Music of Time\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese memoirs reveal Powell - the man and author - providing an insider's view of the British literary scene and social elite from the 1920s to the 1980s. In these pages, Powell observes the obscenity trial sparked by\u003ci\u003e Lady Chatterley's Lover, \u003c\/i\u003eand Shirley Temple's libel suit after Graham Greene reviewed \u003ci\u003eWee Willie Winkie \u003c\/i\u003ewith 'more than his usual verve'. Throughout, Powell paints vivid, witty and superbly written portraits of his contemporaries, other authors including Kingsley Amis, V.S. Naipaul, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeaturing an illuminating new introduction by Louisa Young, TO KEEP THE BALL ROLLING is the abridged version of Anthony Powell's four volumes of memoir, first published between 1976 and 1982.\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":41761081983073,"sku":"9781804948040","price":11.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32166588.jpg?v=1737017619","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781804948040-to-keep-the-ball-rolling","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}