{"product_id":"to-keep-the-ball-rolling-book-anthony-powell-9780140066678","title":"To Keep the Ball Rolling","description":"To earn the reputation of a literary giant within the generation of Waugh, Orwell, and Greene is no mean feat. To do so with the grace and genius that characterized Anthony Powell-whose twelve-volume\u003ci\u003e A Dance to the Music of Time\u003c\/i\u003e is possibly the only English-language work to match the majestic scope of Proust's \u003ci\u003eRemembrance of Things Past\u003c\/i\u003e-is nothing short of spectacular. Yet Powell himself remains absent from his writing; he was, said the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, a writer of mordant succinctness who rewards the reader while revealing little of himself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePowell did eventually reveal himself in four volumes of memoirs published between 1976 and 1982 with the titles of \u003ci\u003eInfants of the Spring\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMessengers of Day\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFaces in My Time\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Strangers All Are Gone\u003c\/i\u003e. This edition of Anthony Powell's memoirs an abridged and revised version of those volumes, a version that has never before been published in the United States. The result is not only a fascinating view of Powell as a man and an author but also a unique history of British literary society and the social elite Powell lampooned and moved within from the 1920s through the 1980s. From Eton and Oxford to his life as a novelist and critic, Powell observes all-the obscenity trial sparked by \u003ci\u003eLady Chatterley's Lover\u003c\/i\u003e; Shirley Temple's libel suit after Graham Greene reviewed \u003ci\u003eWee Willie Winkie\u003c\/i\u003e with even more than his usual verve-and paints vivid portraits of Kingsley Amis, V.S. Naipaul, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and countless others. Most importantly, Powell's lively memoirs banish all thought of the man as a relic of the British gentry. He was a modernist, a Tory, and more than a little interested in genealogy and peerage, but a man who, according to Ferdinand Mount, miraculously knew what life was like.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49547469029649,"sku":"GOR001333121","price":66.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49582002536721,"sku":"GOR002616003","price":68.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50683260436753,"sku":"CIN0140066675VG","price":5.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50785571766545,"sku":"GOR001758165","price":58.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0140066675.jpg?v=1751069667","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/to-keep-the-ball-rolling-book-anthony-powell-9780140066678","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}