Buy this book on-line POWELL,ANTHONY**: : JOURNALS 1987-1989.**LONDON.HEINEMANN,1996. ISBN 0434003786.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.Neat owner inscrptn,but no price-clip to dw/dj.
Bright, clean, glossy, blue background, dw/dj with b/w 'Marc' (cartoonist/
caricaturist) author cartoon to upper wrap
and b/w letters with negligible shelf-wear
and minimal creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing to both head+foot of spine/backstrip.Head of spine/backstrip
with miniscule rubbing and negligible, subsequent loss.Tiny bump to upper top edge and tiny bump to upper bd's bottom, right-hand corner.Top+fore-edge very,very
lightly aged as usual/normal,contents bright,tight,clean and pristine.Clean, black paper-covered bds with bright, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and bright,clean, plain grey eps.8vo,x+4-
239pp includes half-title+title-pages, contents list,intro by Violet Powell, journals 1987-89,and an index.
The first volume of Anthony Powell's journals was published to immense critical
acclaim last year (then 1995) -'a feast of dry wit,measured irony,quirky
anecdote,literary wisdom and spicy opinion,from our greatest living writer in his ninetieth year' (Sunday Telegraph).
These journals,started in 1982 when Powell
had become 'stuck' on a novel,became the place where he could most happily excercise his extraordinarily acute and often witty powers of observation and record his memories of times and writers past.
This, the second volume of the journals, sees the writer in his house in Somerset, The Chantry, encountering old friends, journalists, publishers, relations.He reads through the plays of Shakespeare, and also re-reads 'A Dance to the Music of Time',giving an astonishingly dispassionate and perceptive analysis of his own greatest creation.He remembers Evelyn Waugh, Philip Larkin, Malcolm Muggeridge ('a sworn enemy of queers'), Gerald Brenan ('a corking bore'), and John
Betjeman.He is visited by, among others, V.S.Naipaul, Alison Lurie, Roy Jenkins, and Harold Pinter.He becomes a Companion of Honour.His beloved cat Trelawney dies.
In these frank and entertaining pages, the
daily life of a writer unfolds in a volume
that will delight his many fans as much as its predecessor did.
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