{"product_id":"9780226677408","title":"The Valley of Bones: Book 7 of A Dance to the Music of Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic \u003ci\u003eA Dance to the Music of Time\u003c\/i\u003e offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of \u003ci\u003eDance\u003c\/i\u003e as they were originally published—as twelve individual novels—but with a twenty-first-century twist: they’re available only as e-books.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e World War II has finally broken out, and \u003ci\u003eThe Valley of Bones\u003c\/i\u003e (1964) finds Nick Jenkins learning the military arts. A stint at a training academy in Wales introduces him to the many unusual characters the army has thrown together, from the ambitious bank clerk-turned-martinet, Gwatkin, to the hopelessly slovenly yet endearing washout, Bithel. Even during wartime, however, domestic life proceeds, as a pregnant Isobel nears her term and her siblings’ romantic lives take unexpected turns—their affairs of the heart lent additional urgency by the ever-darkening shadow of war.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician.\"--\u003ci\u003eChicago\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A book which creates a world and explores it in depth, which ponders changing relationships and values, which creates brilliantly living and diverse characters and then watches them grow and change in their milieu. . . . Powell's world is as large and as complex as Proust's.\"--Elizabeth Janeway, \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"One of the most important works of fiction since the Second World War. . . . The novel looked, as it began, something like a comedy of manners; then, for a while, like a tragedy of manners; now like a vastly entertaining, deeply melancholy, yet somehow courageous statement about human experience.\"--Naomi Bliven, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “The most brilliant and penetrating novelist we have.”--Kingsley Amis\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120292315376,"sku":"9780226677408","price":7.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780226677408_p0.jpg?v=1763674553","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780226677408","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}