This is the first comprehensive life of this major writer and extraordinary man. 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, ...
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This is the first comprehensive life of this major writer and extraordinary man. 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 antiheroic 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.
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