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Paperback. Pages: 176 Publisher: Random House UK Completed shortly before Burgess's death. This novel in verse is extravagantly original. Byrne is Anthony Burgess's final work: an epic verse novel. Michael Byrne is a minor modern composer with greater talent in bed than in the concert hall. A bigamist. a charmer and a thug. Byrne sells his talents as a composer and painter. ending up in Hitler's Third Reich. He moves opportunistically from country to country and from bed to bed. leaving a small tribe of children across the globe. He then vanishes and the story passes to his children. including twin sons. one a doubting priest. the other sick of an incapacitating disease. who move across the troubled face of contemporary Europe before encountering their father in one final apocalyptic confrontation. illiantly readable. enormously funny and full of passion and energy. it is al...
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"A rumbustious memorial to one of the most unignorable literary presences of our time" (Sunday Times)
"Dazzling... A brilliant and surprising conclusion to the career of one of the most intelligent and tireless writers of the century" (Philip Hensher Mail on Sunday)
"A fine book" (Independent)
"Byrne is full of his characteristic wit, gusto and erudition" (David Lodge Observer)
"A complex dark comedy in fluently rhymed verse. Frequently hilarious and always engaging, this final book simultaneously satisfies the differing demands of prose fiction and narrative verse. Composed mostly in the same ottava rima that Byron used for "Don Juan," Byrne shows Burgess in command of his poetic medium. One might expect an author to experience new spiritual insight on his deathbed, but such a technical breakthrough is highly unusual" (New York Times)
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"Dazzling... A brilliant and surprising conclusion to the career of one of the most intelligent and tireless writers of the century" (Philip Hensher Mail on Sunday)
"A fine book" (Independent)
"Byrne is full of his characteristic wit, gusto and erudition" (David Lodge Observer)
"A complex dark comedy in fluently rhymed verse. Frequently hilarious and always engaging, this final book simultaneously satisfies the differing demands of prose fiction and narrative verse. Composed mostly in the same ottava rima that Byron used for "Don Juan," Byrne shows Burgess in command of his poetic medium. One might expect an author to experience new spiritual insight on his deathbed, but such a technical breakthrough is highly unusual" (New York Times)
Completed shortly before Burgess's death, this novel in verse is extravagantly original
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- PublisherVintage Classics
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0099541424
- ISBN 13 9780099541424
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages176
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