{"product_id":"9780226677446","title":"Temporary Kings: Book 11 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\u003eIn this penultimate volume, \u003ci\u003eTemporary Kings\u003c\/i\u003e (1973), Nick and his contemporaries are at the height of their various careers in the arts, business, and politics. X. Trapnel is dead, but his mystery continues to draw ghoulish interest from readers and academics alike—as well as from his lover, Pamela Widmerpool. Kenneth Widmerpool, meanwhile, is an MP with mysterious connections beyond the newly dropped Iron Curtain, but he continues to be tormented by Pamela; a spectacular explosion, Nick can’t help but realize, is imminent.\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":47120226877680,"sku":"9780226677446","price":7.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780226677446_p0.jpg?v=1769915657","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780226677446","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}