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Alms for Oblivion
Simon Raven
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Description for Alms for Oblivion
Paperback. Deals with the English upper-class misbehaving that is set against a backdrop of intrigue in Athens, radicalism in Cambridge, turmoil in India and movie-making in Corfu. This volume includes: "The Judas Boy", "Places Where they Sing", "Sound the Retreat", and "Come Like Shadows". Num Pages: 848 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 37. Weight in Grams: 594.
'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 ... Read morethey 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
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Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
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About Simon Raven
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 ... Read morehe 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." Show Less
Reviews for Alms for Oblivion
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
Turn to Raven and revel in his mischievious, malicious world
Observer
A ready made cult waiting to be discovered
Spectator
His world is as original and surrealist ... Read moreas P. G. Wodehouse's, an alligator swamp in the homely back garden where all manner of nasty things hatch out
Guardian
Brisk, bawdy and reckless
Evening Standard
An extraordinary novelist...magnificent
Mail on Sunday
Confident, worldly-wise, insolently comic... a highly entertaining narrative style
Sunday Times
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