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24%OFFSimon Raven - Alms for Oblivion - 9780099561330 - V9780099561330
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Alms for Oblivion

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Description for Alms for Oblivion Paperback. Deals with the English upper-class misbehaving that is set against a backdrop of intrigue in Athens, radicalism in Cambridge, turmoil in India and movie-making in Corfu. This volume includes: "The Judas Boy", "Places Where they Sing", "Sound the Retreat", and "Come Like Shadows". Num Pages: 848 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 37. Weight in Grams: 594.

'Each of the novels in Alms for Oblivion is an elegant morality tale, beautifully composed, sparkling with appreciation of the sheer limitless variety of human wickedness' TLS

Simon Raven's sequence of colourful and funny novels about the English upper-class misbehaving continues against a backdrop of intrigue in Athens, radicalism in Cambridge, turmoil in India and movie-making in Corfu. Dazzlingly witty and thoroughly depraved, Raven's world is also a dark mirror to our times - one that is sure to make you blush, shriek, laugh out loud and always read on.

Volume 2: The Judas Boy, Places Where ... Read more, Sound the Retreat and Come Like Shadows

'The Alms for Oblivion series steers its way its stylish course somewhere between Fleming and Waugh' Guardian

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Product Details

Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
848
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
848
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099561330
SKU
V9780099561330
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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
Each of the novels in Alms for Oblivion is an elegant morality tale, beautifully composed, sparkling with appreciation of the sheer limitless variety of human wickedness
TLS
Turn to Raven and revel in his mischievious, malicious world
Observer
A ready made cult waiting to be discovered
Spectator
His world is as original and surrealist ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Alms for Oblivion


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