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Alms for Oblivion
Simon Raven
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Description for Alms for Oblivion
Paperback. Offers a series of ten novels, all telling separate stories but at the same time linked together by the characters they have in common: schoolboys and businessmen, writers and soldiers, prostitutes and patient wives, actresses and models. This title includes: "The Rich Pay Late", "Friends in Low Places", "The Sabre Squadron", and "Fielding Gray". Num Pages: 896 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 39. Weight in Grams: 610.
'Cracking entertainment... Dangerously, deliciously addictive' Daily Telegraph
'[Raven is] a freak writer, he defies classification. In wilder moments he suggests a loose, lunatic collaboration of Trollope, Ouida and Waugh' Observer
Enter Alms for Oblivion, Simon Raven's dazzling cycle of ten novels, all telling separate stories but at the same time linked together by the characters they have in common: schoolboys and businessmen, writers and soldiers, prostitutes and patient wives, actresses and models. In the first four novels Raven's wayward band of upper-class anti-heroes lurch from debauched parties to rehearsals for nuclear war; from blackmail to murder; from marriage ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
896
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
896
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099561323
SKU
V9780099561323
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99-99
About Simon Raven
Author Simon Raven was perhaps known as much for his controversial behaviour as for his writing. He grew up reading and studying the classics, translating them from Greek and Latin into English and vice-versa. He was expelled from Charterhouse School in 1945 for homosexual activities, having first been seduced at the age of nine by the games master (an experience ... Read more
Reviews for Alms for Oblivion
Cracking entertainment... Dangerously, deliciously addictive
Daily Telegraph
Sparkling and fizzing... Raven has the mind of a cad and the pen of an angel
Guardian
There are some people who consider the greatest cycle of twentieth-century novels to be Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time. These people are wrong. Widmerpool and his joyless accomplices ... Read more
Daily Telegraph
Sparkling and fizzing... Raven has the mind of a cad and the pen of an angel
Guardian
There are some people who consider the greatest cycle of twentieth-century novels to be Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time. These people are wrong. Widmerpool and his joyless accomplices ... Read more