From View To A Death by Anthony Powell

Such a shame. Here is a great writer who in this novel anyway deals in trivia. A silly uppity young man comes to stay, seduces a couple of women, and dies. Some one else dies as well- hence the title. there is not very much point to this slight vignette of useless middle class country life between the wars. Oh, and a farcical cross dressing refined major goes balmy. That's it. I read it for the writing. But as a novel, it just doesn't rate. How did he get this published? And by Penguin, no less.