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Item Details
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THE REAL LIFE OF ANTHONY BURGESS
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| By: |
Andrew Biswell |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£20.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0330481703 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780330481700 |
| Publisher: |
PAN MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
21 October, 2005 |
| Pages: |
400 |
| Description: |
Anthony Burgess is admired worldwide for his literary novels, including "Earthly Powers" and the Enderby quartet. This book looks at his solitary childhood, his haphazard education, his anti-heroic army career, his post-war provincial teachings, and his travels to such diverse places as Malaya, Rome and Leningrad. |
| Synopsis: |
Anthony Burgess has always attracted acclaim and notoriety in roughly equal measure. Admired worldwide for his literary novels - including "Earthly Powers" and the Enderby quartet - he is known to a wider audience as the author of the ultra-violent shocker, "A Clockwork Orange". Burgess was a brilliant polymath who for many years regarded himself as a composer rather than a writer. This book looks his solitary childhood, his haphazard education, his anti-heroic army career, his gloomy post-war provincial teaching, and his colourful travels to such diverse places as Malaya, Rome and Leningrad. Burgess's was a unique creativity that engendered complicated relationships with his friends, his publishers, his first wife, his lovers, and other writers such as Graham Greene and William Burroughs. Drawing on extensive interviews, unpublished writings, manuscripts, letters and diaries, "The Real Life of Anthony Burgess" reveals both the professional writer and the private man as he has never been seen before. |
| Illustrations: |
Illustrations, ports. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Picador |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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