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<p>Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic <i>A Dance to the Music of Time</i> 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 <i>Dance</i> as they were originally published—as twelve individual novels—but with a twenty-first-century twist: they’re available only as e-books.<br> <br> The second volume, <i>A Buyer’s Market</i> (1952),finds young Nick Jenkins struggling to establish himself in London. Amid the fever of the 1920s, he attends formal dinners and wild parties; makes his first tentative forays into the worlds of art, culture, and bohemian life; and suffers his first disappointments in love. Old friends come and go, but the paths they once shared are rapidly diverging: Stringham is settling into a life of debauchery and drink, Templer is plunging into the world of business, and Widmerpool, though still a figure of out-of-place grotesquerie, remains unbowed, confident in his own importance and eventual success. <i>A Buyer’s Market</i> is a striking portrait of the pleasures and anxieties of early adulthood, set against a backdrop of London life and culture at one of its most

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Author

Anthony Powell

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226677354

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction