Afternoon Men

Powell s first novel (1931), a satire of London lads getting into romantic trouble, drinking too much and living up to their reputation as a lost generation . Imagine "Bright Lights, Big City "set in London in 1930. Reviewers have compared it to Waugh and Firbank. The conversations are brilliant and disturbing, deftly rendered, revealing many of the young men as sexist, anti-Semitic, and lacking in talent. Names like Undershaft, Atwater, Pringle, Wauchop, and Brisket add to the humor. As Nicholas Birms writes, The charactershave aspirations, both idealistic and self-serving, as well as the mechanisms to cope, through irony and understatement, with the disappointment of these aspirations ."

Info autore

Anthony Powell (1905-2000) was an English novelist best known for A Dance to the Music of Time, which was published in twelve volumes between 1951 and 1975. He also wrote seven other novels, a biography of John Aubrey, two plays, and three volumes of collected reviews and essays, as well as a four-volume autobiography, an abridged version of which, To Keep the Ball Rolling, is available from the University of Chicago Press.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Anthony Powell, Powell Anthony
• Editore: University Of Chicago Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 06.11.2014
• EAN: 9780226186894
• ISBN: 978-0-226-18689-4
• Pagine: 220
• Dimensioni: 143 mm x 220 mm x 20 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Fiction: general and literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary