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This collection of nonfiction pieces includes irreverent views on such diverse topics as travel, people, food, film, music, literature, and language

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There seems to be nothing Anthony Burgess can't write. Over the past decades, he has created a large body of critically acclaimed fiction (A Clockwork Orange, Earthly Powers, etc.), criticism (The Novel Now, Joysprick and book-length nonfiction (Language Made Plain, etc.) that have made him one of the most respected writers in the English language. At the same time, as this 600-page collection attests, he has been producing reams of high-quality journalism covering travel, food, music, people, film, astrology, language and, above all, literature. This collection of his short pieces from the last seven years, mostly book reviews, displays an impressive diversity and acuity. Burgess is a master reviewer: pithy, polymathic without pedantry, quick to find a virtue or fault, often witty and always, at bottom, generous. Many of the pieces ("Grunts from a Sexist Pig," "Yidglish," "What Shakespeare Smelt," etc.) are well-known favorites. Less familiar are his interesting considerations of such half-forgotten figures as George Borrow, G. K. Chesterton and Ford Madox Ford. His evaluation of the Frenchtoo much Descartes in their bloodstream, not enough Rabelaisprovokes and amuses. Also included are perceptive essays on American contemporaries such as Noam Chomsky, Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer. This wide-ranging collection is incredibly rich. 25,000 first printing; 25,000 ad/promo.
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In nearly 200 reviews and essays written for the Times Literary Supplement , the Observer , and the New York Times , Burgess thrusts his canny, sensitive mind into regions as diverse as fashion, film, musical theater, structural linguistics, religion, literature, music, travel, and feminism. While evenhanded on the strengths and weaknesses of John Updike and Norman Mailer, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Leonard Bernstein, he is occasionally uncompromising: Joyce is the great novelist of the century, Ford the best English novelist, Pound the best poet. He is most elegantly provocative when polymathic perversegracious to Sophia Loren, Grace Kelly, and Yves St. Laurent, brutal to feminists, those he finds culturally arrogant (the French and certain academics), and the culturally deprived (the younger generation). Burgess's field of intellectual energy is supercharged, and enlightenment bolts in all directions. Recommended. Arthur Waldhorn, English Dept., City Coll., CUNY
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  • PublisherMcGraw-Hill
  • Publication date1986
  • ISBN 10 0070089779
  • ISBN 13 9780070089778
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages589
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