A Bottle in the Smoke (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: A. N. Wilson
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The mid-1950’s and approximately thirty-five years later
- Setting: England
- Principal Characters: Julian Ramsay, Anne Starling Ramsay, Raphael Hunter, Day Muckley, Uncle Roy, Aunt Deirdre, Mr. Pilbright
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Mythology or myths, Sex or sexuality, Marriage, Class consciousness, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Upper classes, Death or dying, Orphans or orphanages, Accountants or accounting
- Locales: England
A Bottle in the Smoke is the eighteenth book in only thirteen years by the prodigiously energetic, forty-year-old English novelist and biographer A. N. Wilson, and the second installment in a trilogy that was initiated in 1989 with Incline Our Hearts, winner of the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters. The earlier volume, set in postwar England, traces a decade in the life of its narrator-protagonist Julian Ramsay from the death of his parents through his life with his guardians (Uncle Roy, an Anglican minister, and Aunt...
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