{"product_id":"9780525521341","title":"Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe author of the award-winning, two-volume \u003ci\u003eMatisse: A Life, \u003c\/i\u003enow gives us the long-awaited, definitive biography of literary master, Anthony Powell—the critic, editor and novelist known as \"the English Proust\"— that, at the same time, takes us deep into twentieth century London literary life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnthony Powell (1905-2000), best known for his twelve volume comic masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eDance to the Music of Time,\u003c\/i\u003e was also the author of sixteen earlier novels, plays, and biographies, five memoirs, and three volumes of journals. He was a prolific literary critic and book reviewer. Between the two world wars, before making his name, he kept company with rowdy, hard-up writers and painters—and painter's models—in the London where Augustus John and Wyndham Lewis loomed large. He counted Evelyn Waugh and Henry Green among his life-long friends, and his circle included the Sitwells, Graham Greene, George Orwell, Philip Larkin, and Kingsley Amis, among many others. Now, drawing on his letters, diaries, and interviews, Hilary Spurling—herself a long-time friend of Powell's— has written a fresh and masterful portrait of the man, his work, and his time. Insightful, poignant, and cinematic in scope, this biography is as much a brilliant tapestry of a seminal moment in London's literary life as it is a revelation of an iconic literary figure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026353340656,"sku":"9780525521341","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780525521341_p0.jpg?v=1763710698","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780525521341","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}