The Valley of Bones
  • Published:
    Dec-1983 (Hardcover)
    Sep-1985 (Paperback)
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    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    284
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Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time 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 Dance as they were originally published -- as twelve individual novels -- but with a twenty-first-century twist: they're available only as e-books.

World War II has finally broken out, and The Valley of Bones (1964) finds Nick Jenkins learning the military arts. A stint at a training academy in Wales introduces him to the many unusual characters the army has thrown together, from the ambitious bank clerk-turned-martinet, Gwatkin, to the hopelessly slovenly yet endearing washout, Bithel. Even during wartime, however, domestic life proceeds, as a pregnant Isobel nears her term and her siblings' romantic lives take unexpected turns -- their affairs of the heart lent additional urgency by the ever-darkening shadow of war.

"Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician."--ChicagoTribune

"A book which creates a world and explores it in depth, which ponders changing relationships and values, which creates brilliantly living and diverse characters and then watches them grow and change in their milieu. . . . Powell's world is as large and as complex as Proust's."--Elizabeth Janeway, New YorkTimes

"One of the most important works of fiction since the Second World War. . . . The novel looked, as it began, something like a comedy of manners; then, for a while, like a tragedy of manners; now like a vastly entertaining, deeply melancholy, yet somehow courageous statement about human experience."--Naomi Bliven, New Yorker

“The most brilliant and penetrating novelist we have.”--Kingsley Amis
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    • Sep-1985
    • Popular Library
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0445201444
    • ISBN13: 9780445201446
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    • Jun-2005
    • Random House (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0099472465
    • ISBN13: 9780099472469
    • First Edition
    • Dec-1983
    • HarperCollins (UK)
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0006540481
    • ISBN13: 9780006540489
    •  
    • Dec-2010
    • University of Chicago Press
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0226677400
    • ISBN13: 9780226677408
    •  
    • Dec-2010
    • University of Chicago Press
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Dec-2010
    • William Heinemann (UK)
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1446427188
    • ISBN13: 9781446427187
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    • Jan-1999
    • ISIS Large Print Books
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0753158205
    • ISBN13: 9780753158203
    • Large Print



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