Tremor of Intent – A Novel - Softcover

Burgess, A

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393004163 ISBN 13: 9780393004168

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1977

Synopsis

Denis Hillier is an aging British agent based in Yugoslavia. His old school friend Roper has defected to the USSR to become one of the evil empire's great scientific minds. Hillier must bring Roper back to England or risk losing his fat retirement bonus. As thoughtful as it is funny, this morality tale of a Secret Service gone mad features sex, gluttony, violence, treachery, and religion. Anthony Burgess's cast of astonishing characters includes Roper's German prostitute wife; Miss Devi and her Tamil love treatise; and the large Mr. Theodorescu, international secret monger and lascivious gourmand. A rare combination of the deadly serious and the absurd, the lofty and the lusty, Tremor of Intent will hold you in its thrall.

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Review:

A gleaming novel of ideas...brazenly clever. He is possessed by a black sense of humor...Burgess is nothing if not outrageous. "

About the Author:

W. W. Norton publishes several of Anthony Burgess's works, including A Clockwork Orange, The Doctor is Sick, Honey for the Bears, The Long Day Wanes, Nothing Like the Sun, The Wanting Seed, and Re Joyce.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0393004163
• ISBN 13: 9780393004168
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272