Title: Temporary kings
Subtitle: a novel
First published: 1973
Description: This is the eleventh volume in the series "A Dance to the Music of Time." In this penultimate volume, Temporary Kings (1973), Nick and his contemporaries are at the height of their various careers in the arts, business, and politics. X. Trapnel is dead, but his mystery continues to draw ghoulish interest from readers and academics alike--as well as from his lover, Pamela Widmerpool. Kenneth Widmerpool, meanwhile, is an MP with mysterious connections beyond the newly dropped Iron Curtain, but he continues to be tormented by Pamela; a spectacular explosion, Nick can't help but realize, is imminent. --Amazon.com.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), England, fiction, Fiction, general, Venice (italy), fiction
Places: England
Time periods: 20th century