Alms for Oblivion Volume I
Alms for Oblivion Volume I by Simon Raven is a paperback edition published by Vintage Publishing in 2012, featuring 896 pages in English. This volume introduces readers to a dazzling cycle of ten novels, each presenting separate yet interconnected stories that revolve around a diverse cast of characters, including schoolboys, businessmen, and upper-class anti-heroes. The narratives explore themes of debauchery, intrigue, and the complexities of human relationships against a backdrop of 20th-century England.
In this first volume, readers will encounter four distinct novels: The Rich Pay Late, Friends in Low Places, The Sabre Squadron, and Fielding Gray. The stories delve into the lives of characters navigating a world filled with parties, blackmail, and moral dilemmas. Raven’s unique style blends humor with literary depth, offering insights into cultural heritage and the human condition. This edition serves as an entry point into Raven’s expansive and provocative literary universe, inviting readers to engage with the rich tapestry of life and folly depicted in his work.
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‘Cracking entertainment… Dangerously, deliciously addictive’ Daily Telegraph
‘ Raven is a freak writer, he defies classification. In wilder moments he suggests a loose, lunatic collaboration of Trollope, Ouida and Waugh’ Observer
Enter Alms for Oblivion, Simon 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.
Volume 1- The Rich Pay Late, Friends in Low Places, The Sabre Squadron and Fielding Gray
‘There are some people who consider the greatest cycle of twentieth-century novels to be Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time. These people are wrong. Widmerpool and his joyless accomplices are as nothing compared to the characters in Simon Raven’s majestic, scurrilous and scabrous Alms for Oblivion cycle’ Guardian
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