{"product_id":"9780226677415","title":"The Soldier's Art: Book 8 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 \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe eighth volume\u003ci\u003e, The Soldier’s Art\u003c\/i\u003e (1966), finds Nick in the thankless position of assistant to a rapidly rising Major Widmerpool. The disruptions of war throw up other familiar faces as well: Charles Stringham, heroically emerging from alcoholism but a mere shadow of his former self; Hugh Moreland, his marriage broken, himself nearly so. As the Blitz intensifies, the war’s toll mounts; the fates are claiming their own, and many friends will not be seen again. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\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\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\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":47120357458160,"sku":"9780226677415","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780226677415_p0.jpg?v=1769915630","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780226677415","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}