Temporary Kings

✍ Scribed by Powell, Anthony

• Book ID: 110479077
• Publisher: Random House
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 160 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781409039549

✦ Synopsis

The eleventh novel in Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time. Around 1958, a decade on from the preceding novel, Books Do Furnish a Room, Jenkins attends an international literary conference in Venice, where the death is announced of French author Ferrand-Sénéschal. Dr Emily Brightman introduces Jenkins to Russell Gwinnett, a prospective biographer of X Trapnel with a faintly alarming manner. Gwinnett naturally wishes to meet Pamela Widmerpool, and he produces a press report linking her with Ferrand-Sénéschal's death...