Dance to the Music of Time: Temporary Kings (Hardcover)

from BooksForDinner

Hey, great, as always, but didn't love this one quite as much as all of the others. Still wonderful. I'm sure if I reread it I'd love 150 pages of being at a party, but kind of the same thing I went through with the second book. Alright already.

from EadieB

Book DescriptionIn this penultimate volume, Temporary Kings (1973), Nick and his contemporaries are at the height of their various careers in the arts, business, and politics. X. Trapnel is dead, but his mystery continues to draw ghoulish interest from readers and academics alike 14as well as fro...

from Kristelh

This book starts in Venice. Jenkins is at a literary conference. Two new characters, a don, Dr. Emily Brightman, and Russell Gwinnett, an American who plans to write a biography of X. Trapnel. Really this book goes into a lot of sexual behaviors which were the emerging subject in the years follow...

from Eyejaybee

The eleventh volume of Powell's masterful Dance to the Music of Time sequence is set mainly in Venice where the narrator, Nick Jenkins, has been lured to attend a literary conference. Early in his visit he encounters Russell Gwinnett, an American academic who has taken a sabbatical break to work ...

from Eyejaybee

The eleventh volume of Anthony Powell's masterful Dance to the Music of Time sequence opens in Venice where the narrator, Nick Jenkins, has been lured to attend a literary conference. Among his fellow delegates are the erudite but rather intimidating academic, Dr Emily Brightman, and Russell Gwin...