Alms For Oblivion Volume II - Alms for Oblivion (Paperback)
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Alms For Oblivion Volume II - Alms for Oblivion (Paperback)

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Paperback 848 Pages
Published: 03/05/2012
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'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

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099561330
Number of pages: 848
Weight: 560 g
Dimensions: 198 x 128 x 42 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

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 as 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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