To earn the reputation of a literary giant within the generation of Waugh, Orwell, and Greene is no mean feat.
Yet Powell himself remains absent from his writing; he was, said the New York Times , "a writer of mord.
To do so with the grace and genius that characterized Anthony Powell--whose twelve-volume A Dance to the Music of Time is possibly the only English-language work to match the majestic scope of Proust\'s Remembrance of Things Past --is nothing short of spectacular.
To earn the reputation of a literary giant within the generation of Waugh, Orwell, and Greene is no mean feat