Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (A Dance to the Music of Time, Book 5)

A Dance to the Music of Time his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. The novels follow Nicholas Jenkins, Kenneth Widmerpool and others, as they negotiate the intellectual, cultural and social hurdles that stand between them and the Acceptance World. Review I think it is now becoming clear that A Dance to the Music of Time is going to become the greatest modern novel since Ulysses. Clive James I would rather read Mr Powell than any English novelist now writing. Kingsley Amis About the Author Anthony Powell was born in 1905. He served in the army during World War II. He is the author of seven other novels, and four volumes of memoirs, To Keep the Ball Rolling . 'He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN 'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Reissued now in this definitive edition, it stands ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers. In this fifth volume, Nick Jenkins finally seems to be settling down and enjoying the life he has made for himself in London. However, the same cannot be said of his friends, who are each dealing with their own drama and heartache. The composer Hugh Moreland is risking his marriage for a pointless affair, while, Nick's old school pal Stringham has nearly destroyed himself with drink. But with the rumblings of war getting louder and nearer, the future is starting to look uncertain for all of them. *Casanova's Chinese Restaurant* is the fifth volume of Anthony Powell's twelve-volume sequence of novels *A Dance to the Music of Time*. It was first published by Heinemann in 1960.