Journals 1982

During the eighties, while working on a novel which had become ''stuck'', Anthony Powell, one of the greatest of twentieth-century Enlgish novelists, began writing a journal. Gossipy, delightful, sometimes barbed, these journals give a fascinating insight into the writer''s life: the people he met, the places her visited and the parties he went to. The acute intelligence and wit which has made A D...