โ Scribed by Anthony Powell
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Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally published--as twelve individual novels--but with a twenty-first-century twist: they're available only as e-books.
The second volume, A Buyer's Market (1952),finds young Nick Jenkins struggling to establish himself in London. Amid the fever of the 1920s, he attends formal dinners and wild parties; makes his first tentative forays into the worlds of art, culture, and bohemian life; and suffers his first disappointments in love. Old friends come and go, but the paths they once shared are rapidly diverging: Stringham is settling into a life of debauchery and drink, Templer is plunging into the world of business, and Widmerpool, though still a figure of out-of-place grotesquerie, remains unbowed,...
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The second novel in Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time
Warning for violent, non-consensual acts. This book does feature a strong hurt/comfort theme that involves references (non-explicit) to a violent rape. 5% of royalties received from the sale of Buyer Beware are donated to The Trevor Project; the leading national organization providing crisis in
### Expansion of the story, "The Boy who Bought Old Earth," later incorporated into the book, "Norstrilia." Library : General Universes : Rod McBan [03] Formats : EPUB ISBN : 9780722179420