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Ciascuno dei romanzi di Alms for Oblivion è un elegante racconto morale, splendidamente composto, scintillante di apprezzamento per la varietà illimitata della malvagità umana. TLS La sequenza di romanzi colorati e divertenti di Simon Raven sui cattivi comportamenti dell'alta borghesia inglese continua sullo sfondo di intrighi ad Atene, radicalismo a Cambridge, tumulti in India e produzione cinematografica a Corfù. Abbagliantemente spiritoso e completamente depravato, il mondo di Raven è anche uno specchio oscuro dei nostri tempi, uno che sicuramente ti farà arrossire, strillare, ridere a crepapelle e continuare a leggere. Volume 2: The Judas Boy, Places Where they Sing, Sound the Retreat e Come Like Shadows. La serie Alms for Oblivion segue la sua rotta elegante da qualche parte tra Fleming e Waugh. Guardian
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Author Simon Raven was perhaps known as much for his controversial behaviour as for his writing. He grew up reading and studying the classics, translating them from Greek and Latin into English and vice-versa. He was expelled from Charterhouse School in 1945 for homosexual activities, having first been seduced at the age of nine by the games master (an experience he described as giving 'immediate and unalloyed pleasure") and went on to join the army. Following his National Service, Raven attended King's College, Cambridge to read English. Raven later returned to the army but was asked to resign rather than face a court-martial for 'conduct unbecoming.' It was at this point that he turned his focus to writing. The publisher Anthony Blond paid Raven to write and to move away from London to Deal, Kent. His works span a multitude of genres including fiction, drama, essays, memoirs and screenplays. Simon Raven died in May 2001, having written his own epitaph: "He shared his bottle - and, when still young and appetising, his bed."
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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 'Each of the novels in Alms for Oblivion is an elegant morality tale, beautifully composed, sparkling with appreciation of the sheer limitless variety of human wickedness' TLS Simon Raven's sequence of colourful and funny novels about the English upper-class misbehaving continues against a backdrop of intrigue in Athens, radicalism in Cambridge, turmoil in India and movie-making in Corfu. Dazzlingly witty and thoroughly depraved, Raven's world is also a dark mirror to our times - one that is sure to make you blush, shriek, laugh out loud and always read on. Volume 2: The Judas Boy, Places Where they Sing, Sound the Retreat and Come Like Shadows 'The Alms for Oblivion series steers its way its stylish course somewhere between Fleming and Waugh' Guardian. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Codice articolo GOR005097099
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