by Anthony Powell · HODDER FAWCETT LTD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780340407813
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«The Fisher King» is Anthony Powell's literary fiction novel, published by Hodder Fawcett Ltd in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Valentine Beals observes an unexpected couple on a cruise: the dancer Barberina Rookwood and the photographer Saul Henchman, a crippled war hero. Beals imagines Henchman as the Fisher King and weaves that myth with a young artist's decision to give up her career to care for an older man. Narrative with mythology and satire.
Anthony Powell is also the author of the series A Dance to the Music of Time. New English edition, published in 1987.
Aimed at readers of literary and contemporary fiction, especially followers of Anthony Powell and twentieth-century British narrative.
Anthony Dymoke Powell was an English novelist best known for his 12-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975. It is on the list of longest novels in English.
