Anthony Burgess' epic masterpiece
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.
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*
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
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