First Uk edition first impression from 1960, there is a previous owner inscription to the front blank endpage, no other internal markings, pages clean, binding firm, The jacket has chipping and wear to extremities, now in removable protective sleeve.
Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant
is a novel byAnthony Powell . It forms the fifth volume of the twelve-volume sequenceA Dance to the Music of Time, and was originally published in 1960.
As with several of the earlier volumes, there is a time-overlap with previous books, the first part returning to the period before the death of Mr. Deacon. The ruined door of a fictionalSohopub, the Mortimer, provides the narrative frame of the volume.However,Casanova’s Chinese Restaurantconcentrates on a new set of characters, principally the composer Hugh Moreland, (based on Powell’s close friendConstant Lambert),his fiance Matilda, and the critic Maclintick and his wife, Audrey, whose unhappy marriage forms a key part of the narrative.
The interweaving of historical with fictional events is more notable here, and is used to illuminate the characters, as for example in Erridge’s ill-considered departure for theSpanish Civil War.
