Earthly Powers - Hardcover

Anthony Burgess

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671414909 ISBN 13: 9780671414900

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1980

Synopsis

An exploration of the very essence of power centers on two men who represent different types of earthly power--one an eminent novelist and well-known homosexual, the other a man of God who rises through the Vatican hierarchy

About this title

About the Author:

Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917. He served in the army from 1940 to 1954 before becoming a colonial education officer. It was while he held this post that doctors told him he would die, and he decided to try to live by writing. A prolific and respected author, Burgess died in 1993.

Review:

"Crowded, crammed, bursting with manic erudition, garlicky puns, omnilingual jokes... which meshes the real and personalised history of the twentieth century" -- Martin Amis "Burgess is the great postmodern storehouse of British writing-an important experimentalist; an encyclopaedic amasser, but also a maker of form; a playful comic, with a dark gloom" -- Malcolm Bradbury "Enormous imagination and vitality - a huge book in every way" * Sunday Times * "A hellfire tract thrown down by a novelist at the peak of his powers" * The Times * "In all ways, a remarkable book" -- Paul Theroux

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0671414909
• ISBN 13: 9780671414900
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 607