Afternoon Men (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Anthony Powell
- First Published: 1931
- Type of Work: Social satire
- Time of Work: The 1920’s
- Setting: The Soho area of London
- Principal Characters: William Atwater, Raymond Pringle, Harriet Twining, Susan Nunnery, Lola, Hector Barlow, Fotheringham, Undershaft, Naomi Race, George Nunnery, Verelst
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: Culture, Art or artists, 1920’s, City life, London, Painting or painters, Lifestyles, Bohemianism, Comedy
- Locales: Soho, London, England
The Novel
Nothing much seems to happen in this comic novel of semibohemian London social life in the 1920’s; rather than a novel of action, it is a novel of talk. The book is a novelized comedy of manners which focuses on the “bright young people” of the London Soho district and often seems more appropriate to drawing-room stage comedy than to the novel form. The talk is not very stimulating but rather flat and tedious chitchat of bored young people who are bright but brittle and filled with self-conscious ennui. The action, what there is of it, focuses primarily on...
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