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Alms for Oblivion Volume III
Simon Raven
出版
Penguin Random House
, 2012
主題
Fiction / General
Fiction / Classics
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
Fiction / Cultural Heritage
Fiction / Humorous / Black Humor
Fiction / World Literature / England / 20th Century
Humor / General
Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
ISBN
0099561344
9780099561347
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=SSKKFAs4SAMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
'Brisk, bawdy and reckless'
Evening Standard
'A freak writer, he defies classification. In wilder moments he suggests a loose, lunatic collaboration of Trollope, Ouida and Waugh'
Observer
The
Alms for Oblivion
sequence - an extraordinary series of murders, suicides, affairs, fighting, fires and at least one explosion, blackmail, gambling, illness, madness, lots of parties and plenty of sex - draws to a close with two novels about death and retribution. But Simon Raven's achievement and the conflicted, colourful or uniquely vile characters he created are not easily forgotten after the last page is turned.
Volume III includes
Bring Forth the Body
and
The Survivors
'There are some people who consider the greatest cycle of twentieth-century novels to be Anthony Powell's
A Dance to the Music of Time.
These people are wrong. Widmerpool and his joyless accomplices are as nothing compared to the characters in Simon Raven's majestic, scurrilous and scabrous
Alms for Oblivion
cycle'
Guardian
