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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 AmisProduct DescriptionTrapnel may be dead but his ghost hovers over an American academic's attempt to rake over the ashes of his affair with Pamela Widmerpool. Her husband, now a Labour peer, is caught up in a spy scandal as well as the death, of a Marxist intellectual.About the AuthorAnthony Powell was born in 1905. He worked in a publishing house before joining the Daily Telegraph. He later became editor of Punch magazine. He is the author of the hugely successful Dance to the Music of Time sequence of novels, wich was recently made into a major television drama. He died in the Spring of 2000.