Dance Class

<i>Dance Class</i> offers an extraordinary collection of student essays about Anthony Powell's great comic novel <i>A Dance to the Music of Time</i>. The young authors not only discuss issues of character plot and theme but they also investigate historical background chart personal relevance parody characters and situations even - in one student's case - write a treatment for a drama.<p>In examining Mrs. Erdleigh's fortune-telling mumbo-jumbo Cassidy Carpenter presents compelling - and original - evidence that the narrator's birthday is the same as Powell's. Will Story provides an invaluable guide to all the military acronyms that percolate through the war novels. Alex Svec creates a brilliant parody of writings by Julian Maclaren-Ross the real-life model for X. Trapnel.<p>For those who love <i>A Dance to the Music of Time</i> this book will reveal fresh new ways of looking at the series. And for those who are just discovering it <i>Dance Class</i> will prove a useful and highly entertaining guide.