Alms For Oblivion Volume I

<p><b>'Cracking entertainment... Dangerously, deliciously addictive' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b><br><br><b>'[Raven is] a freak writer, he defies classification. In wilder moments he suggests a loose, lunatic collaboration of Trollope, Ouida and Waugh' <i>Observer</i></b><br><br>Enter<i> Alms for Oblivion, </i>Simon Raven's dazzling cycle 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.<br><br>Volume 1: <i>The Rich Pay Late, Friends in Low Places, The Sabre Squadron </i>and <i>Fielding Gray</i><br><br><b>'There are some people who consider the greatest cycle of twentieth-century novels to be Anthony Powell's <i>A Dance to the Music of Time</i>. These people are wrong. Widmerpool and his joyless accomplices are as nothing compared to the characters in Simon Raven's majestic, scurrilous and scabrous <i>Alms for Oblivion</i> cycle' <i>Guardian</i></b></p> <p><b>'Cracking entertainment... Dangerously, deliciously addictive' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b><br><br><b>'[Raven is] a freak writer, he defies classification. In wilder moments he suggests a loose, lunatic collaboration of Trollope, Ouida and Waugh' <i>Observer</i></b><br><br>Enter<i> Alms for Oblivion, </i>Simon Raven's dazzling cycle 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.<br><br>Volume 1: <i>The Rich Pay Late, Friends in Low Places, The Sabre Squadron </i>and <i>Fielding Gray</i><br><br><b>'There are some people who consider the greatest cycle of twentieth-century novels to be Anthony Powell's <i>A Dance to the Music of Time</i>. These people are wrong. Widmerpool and his joyless accomplices are as nothing compared to the characters in Simon Raven's majestic, scurrilous and scabrous <i>Alms for Oblivion</i> cycle' <i>Guardian</i></b></p>