‘A blockbuster of a book, a work which will inspire admiration and wonder … writing with equal assurance about poetry, novels, painting, architecture, film and music’ – Noel Malcolm, The Sunday Telegraph

'… tells the story of modern cultural history with unflagging freshness, and without an ounce of surplus stylistic fat' – Terry Eagleton, London Review of Books

'… a book with everything in it, a fascinating melange, going in all directions at once' – Hanif Kureishi, Guardian Books of the Year

'Conrad is stunningly well-informed, compulsively allusive and equipped with the kind of imagination that transforms the base metal of contemporary history into pure gold' – Robert McCrum, The Observer

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