To Keep the Ball Rolling
Subtitle: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: July 3, 1984
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780140066678
First sentence: I was born in London, 21 December, 1905, the winter solstice (''tis the year's midnight, and it is the days's'), feast of the sceptical St Thomas, cusp of The Centaur and The Goat; the hour, towards one o'clock of a Thursday afternoon; the place, 44 Ashley Gardens, Westminster, a furnished flat rented for the occasion in one of the several redbrick blocks in that rather depressing area between Victoria Street and the Vauxhall Bridge Road.