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Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
Casanova's Chinese Restaurant: Book 5 of A Dance to the Music of Time | 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 (…more)
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Minervasbutler
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Volume 5 of his 12-volume A Dance to the Music of Time opens in the late 1920s with Nick recalling his first meeting with composer Hugh Moreland before jumping forward a few years to 1936 when both he and Moreland are navigating the shoals of matrimony. As well as Moreland we are reintroduced to old friends, most memorably Stringham, and Widmerpool continues his inexorable rise.

DivineDiana Twelve Volumes! Fascinating! I was not aware of him. 3y
Minervasbutler @DivineDiana this is my fourth time reading it. I read it every couple of decades and enjoy it more each time. But that's just me lol. Won't be to all tastes. 3y
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nocto
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Starting in on volume 5 of A Dance to the Music of Time. I still can‘t decide if I actually like this series but it‘s definitely interesting historically.

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I'm all ready for 🥞💞February's #bookspin! Emojis almost certainly bear absolutely no resemblance to the content of 📚books that I haven't 📖read 😄. The tagged book is a series I really want to get back to before I forget who everyone is again. Looking forward to what @TheAromaOfBooks picks out at random this month!

nocto And now I've learnt that I can't spell 'Casanova'! 🙄 4y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 4y
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Just finished book 5 in Powell‘s Dance to the Music of Time- almost 1/2 way through my one a month reading project to finish these 12 volumes this year. Casanova‘s Chinese Restaurant follows the gang- less Widmerpool and more Moreland/Lovell/erridge and Quiggin through marriages begun and ended, what feels like the end of frivolity and the drumbeats of the approaching war. This volume was originally published in 1960 and set in London 1933-37.