{"product_id":"alms-for-oblivion-vol-i","title":"Alms For Oblivion Vol I","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Cracking entertainment... Dangerously, deliciously addictive'' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''[Raven is] a freak writer, he defies classification. In wilder moments he suggests a loose, lunatic collaboration of Trollope, Ouida and Waugh'' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnter\u003ci\u003e Alms for Oblivion, \u003c\/i\u003eSimon 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVolume 1: \u003ci\u003eThe Rich Pay Late, Friends in Low Places, The Sabre Squadron \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eFielding Gray\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''There are some people who consider the greatest cycle of twentieth-century novels to be Anthony Powell''s \u003ci\u003eA Dance to the Music of Time\u003c\/i\u003e. These people are wrong. Widmerpool and his joyless accomplices are as nothing compared to the characters in Simon Raven''s majestic, scurrilous and scabrous \u003ci\u003eAlms for Oblivion\u003c\/i\u003e cycle'' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57319961067902,"sku":"NW9780099561323","price":12.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780099561323.jpg?v=1778650362","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/alms-for-oblivion-vol-i","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}