{"id":17,"date":"2007-04-20T19:21:34","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T23:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2007-04-20T19:21:34","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T23:21:34","slug":"a-dance-to-the-music-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/20\/a-dance-to-the-music-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dance to the Music of Time."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m curious whether any of you have read all or part of Anthony Powell&#8217;s novel sequence, <em>A Dance to the Music of Time<\/em>. I just finished the first book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FQuestion-Upbringing-Anthony-Powell%2Fdp%2F0099472384%2F&#038;tag=meadowpartyco-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">A Question of Upbringing<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=meadowpartyco-20&#038;l=ur2&#038;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/em> (there are twelve parts in all), and I&#8217;m hooked. There&#8217;s a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald in Powell&#8217;s writing, especially <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FThis-Side-Paradise-Scott-Fitzgerald%2Fdp%2F0684843781%2F&#038;tag=meadowpartyco-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">This Side of Paradise<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=meadowpartyco-20&#038;l=ur2&#038;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/em> (not as good as <em>Gatsby<\/em> or <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FTender-Night-F-Scott-Fitzgerald%2Fdp%2F068480154X%2F&#038;tag=meadowpartyco-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">Tender is the Night<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=meadowpartyco-20&#038;l=ur2&#038;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/em>, but still brilliant), and I can see some Evelyn Waugh there as well. I actually bought volume two, <em>A Buyer&#8217;s Market<\/em>, at a used bookstore for $2, and then picked up the first part on half.com, but I&#8217;ll probably go for the three-volume sets (the only way it&#8217;s still published) for the rest of the series. Has anyone else tackled this one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m curious whether any of you have read all or part of Anthony Powell&#8217;s novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time. I just finished the first book, A Question of Upbringing (there are twelve parts in all), and I&#8217;m hooked. There&#8217;s a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald in Powell&#8217;s writing, especially This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}