From a View to a Death

From a View to a Death
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 9780226133010
ISBN-13 : 022613301X
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Book Synopsis From a View to a Death by : Anthony Powell

Download or read book From a View to a Death written by Anthony Powell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unsavory artists, titled boobs, and charlatans with an affinity for Freud—such are the oddballs whose antics animate the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire delivered with a very dry wit, Powell builds his comedies on the foibles of British high society between the wars, delving into subjects as various as psychoanalysis, the film industry, publishing, and (of course) sex. More explorations of relationships and vanity than plot-driven narratives, these slim novels reveal the early stirrings of the unequaled style, ear for dialogue, and eye for irony that would reach their caustic peak in Powell’s epic A Dance to the Music of Time. From a View to a Death takes us to a dilapidated country estate where an ambitious artist of questionable talent, a family of landed aristocrats wondering where the money has gone, and a secretly cross-dressing squire all commingle among the ruins. Written from a vantage point both high and necessarily narrow, Powell’s early novels nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would become a substantial part of his oeuvre: pride, greed, and what makes people behave as they do. Filled with eccentric characters and piercing insights, Powell’s work is achingly hilarious, human, and true.


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Foreword by Ferdinand MountPart One- Infants of the SpringPart Two- Messengers of DayPart Three- Faces in My TimePart Four- The Strangers All Are Gone Copyright