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Synopsis
Takes the reader, with laughter, to the heart of the Cold War as Paul Hussey, an antique dealer from Sussex, tries to wheel and deal in Leningrad
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About the Author
Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) is the author of many works, including A Clockwork Orange, The Wanting Seed, Nothing Like the Sun, Honey for the Bears, The Long Day Wanes, The Doctor Is Sick, and ReJoyce.
Review
“It is a very funny, unbalancing, and contentedly schizoid novel that reduces the cold war to an intimate kind of insanity.”
- Newsweek
“Honey for the Bears is one of the best-planned and most brilliantly executed books I have seen in a long time. . . . The reader . . . is in the presence of a virtuoso.”
- Saturday Review
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- PublisherHeinemann
- Publication date1963
- ISBN 10 0434098035
- ISBN 13 9780434098033
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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Honey for the bears
Seller: RightWayUp Books, Woodbridge, SUFFO, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Burgess, Anthony. Honey for the bears. London: Heinemann, 1972. Hardback, Good, in unclipped dustjacket, sunned to spine and edges, with minor shelfwear. Orange cloth with a faded line at top and base; gilt lettering to spine. Binding strong. Rectangle (signature presumably) cut from the top of ffep. 256pp., contents clean and bright. "One of Anthony Burgess's strangest works of fiction. This Anglo-Russian comedy follows its protagonists an English antique dealer named Paul Hussey and his errant wife, Belinda on a sea voyage to Leningrad (now St Petersburg) in Soviet Russia, where they become embroiled with black marketeers, secret policemen and political dissidents. As in A Clockwork Orange, published the previous year, Burgess uses a Russian backdrop as a way of exploring his long-standing preoccupations, including free will, the problems of cultural and linguistic mistranslation, and the difficulties arising from uninhibited sexual congress" (Burgess Foundation). RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. Seller Inventory # ABE-1712863406647
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Honey for the Bears
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Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Apparent first edition. Ex library book with usual stamps and stickers. Page edges are marked but contents remain clean and sit in a firm binding. Complete with a dust jacket kept tidy by a library sleeve. Seller Inventory # mon0022062250
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hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual markings. Pages are faily clean, but a few pages have small stains along edges, otherwise in good condition. Note: rebound by library into another hardback (uses the same cover art) Quick dispatch from UK seller. Seller Inventory # mon0000492826
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Honey for the Bears
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ISBN 10: 0434098035
ISBN 13: 9780434098033
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Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 255 pages. A novel of an antique dealers attempt to sell on the Soviet black market. By the author of A Clockwork Orange. First edition (first printing); with the original 18s price on dust jacket. A small closed tear to last page else a fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a bit of scuffing to folds and edge wear. Seller Inventory # 230381
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Honey for the Bears
Published by
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ISBN 10: 0434098035
ISBN 13: 9780434098033
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Seller: Eureka Books, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 255 pages. A novel of an antique dealers attempt to sell on the Soviet black market. By the author of A Clockwork Orange. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a dust jacket with minor edge wear. Seller Inventory # 267304
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