{"product_id":"9780099561323","title":"Alms For Oblivion Volume I","description":"Author: Raven, Simon\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780099561323\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK\u003cbr\u003eYear First Published: 2012\u003cbr\u003ePages: 896\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 197mm x 132mm x 40mm\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription: \u003cbr\u003eA dazzling sequence of novels about the English misbehaving at home and abroad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Cracking entertainment... Dangerously, deliciously addictive' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e' Raven is  a freak writer, he defies classification. In wilder moments he suggests a loose, lunatic collaboration of Trollope, Ouida and Waugh' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eEnter\u003ci\u003e Alms for Oblivion, \u003c\/i\u003eSimon Raven's\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003edazzling\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ecycle of ten novels, all telling separate stories but at the same time linked together by the characters they have in common- schoolboys and businessmen, writers and soldiers, prostitutes and patient wives, actresses and models. In the first four novels Raven's wayward band of upper-class anti-heroes lurch from debauched parties to rehearsals for nuclear war; from blackmail to murder; from marriage to adultery and back again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVolume 1- \u003ci\u003eThe Rich Pay Late, Friends in Low Places, The Sabre Squadron \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eFielding Gray\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'There are some people who consider the greatest cycle of twentieth-century novels to be Anthony Powell's \u003ci\u003eA Dance to the Music of Time\u003c\/i\u003e. These people are wrong. Widmerpool and his joyless accomplices are as nothing compared to the characters in Simon Raven's majestic, scurrilous and scabrous \u003ci\u003eAlms for Oblivion\u003c\/i\u003e cycle' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44268366921886,"sku":"UBD-9780099561323","price":39.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780099561323.jpg?v=1725452816","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780099561323","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}