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Deals with the English upper-class misbehaving that is set against a backdrop of intrigue in Athens, radicalism in Cambridge, turmoil in India and movie-making in Corfu. This volume includes: "The Judas Boy", "Places Where they Sing", "Sound the Retreat", and "Come Like Shadows".

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Each of the novels in Alms for Oblivion is an elegant morality tale, beautifully composed, sparkling with appreciation of the sheer limitless variety of human wickedness * TLS *
Turn to Raven and revel in his mischievious, malicious world * Observer *
A ready made cult waiting to be discovered * Spectator *
His world is as original and surrealist as P. G. Wodehouse's, an alligator swamp in the homely back garden where all manner of nasty things hatch out * Guardian *
Brisk, bawdy and reckless * Evening Standard *
An extraordinary novelist...magnificent * Mail on Sunday *
Confident, worldly-wise, insolently comic... a highly entertaining narrative style * Sunday Times *

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      Publisher: Vintage Publishing
      Publication Date: 03/05/2012
      ISBN13: 9780099561330, 978-0099561330
      ISBN10: 0099561336
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Deals with the English upper-class misbehaving that is set against a backdrop of intrigue in Athens, radicalism in Cambridge, turmoil in India and movie-making in Corfu. This volume includes: "The Judas Boy", "Places Where they Sing", "Sound the Retreat", and "Come Like Shadows".

      Trade Review
      Each of the novels in Alms for Oblivion is an elegant morality tale, beautifully composed, sparkling with appreciation of the sheer limitless variety of human wickedness * TLS *
      Turn to Raven and revel in his mischievious, malicious world * Observer *
      A ready made cult waiting to be discovered * Spectator *
      His world is as original and surrealist as P. G. Wodehouse's, an alligator swamp in the homely back garden where all manner of nasty things hatch out * Guardian *
      Brisk, bawdy and reckless * Evening Standard *
      An extraordinary novelist...magnificent * Mail on Sunday *
      Confident, worldly-wise, insolently comic... a highly entertaining narrative style * Sunday Times *

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