Name: The Valley of Bones

Author: Anthony Powell
Year: 1964
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9780753158203
0753158205
Anthony Powell'€™s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time 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 Dance as they were originally published'€”as twelve individual novels'€”but with a twenty-first-century twist: they'€™re available only as e-books. World War II has finally broken out, and The Valley of Bones (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. "Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician."--Chicago Tribune "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, New York Times "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, New Yorker '€œThe most brilliant and penetrating novelist we have.'€--Kingsley Amis
This book is part of the "A Dance to the Music of Time" series. Here are some other books from this series:
"The Military Philosophers"
First published in 1968
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"The Soldier's Art"
First published in 1966
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"The Kindly Ones"
First published in 1962
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"Casanova's Chinese Restaurant"
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"At Lady Molly's"
First published in 1957
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"A Dance to the Music of Time"
First published in 1955
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