Anthony Burgess - Hardcover

Lewis, Roger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571204929 ISBN 13: 9780571204922

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2002

Synopsis

[Burgess, Anthony] Lewis, Roger. Anthony Burgess. London, Faber & Faber, 2002. 16 cm x 24 cm. XXXVII, 434 pages with illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following contents:- Prologue / Jack Be Nimble / Sex and Violence/ Happy Days / Jungle Books / Renaissance Man / Epilogue etc. This biography is the culmination and distillation of 20 years' work on Anthony Burgess (1917-1993), the author who remains best known for A Clockwork Orange, the source for Stanley Kubrick's classic film. Yet Burgess was the author of over 60 books, ranging from airport blockbusters to a history of the stagecoach, from brilliant studies of Joyce, Shakespeare, Hemingway and D.H. Lawrence, to meditations on music and pot-boilers on beds and pornography. When he died, he left approximately three million dollars in the bank and ten or so houses or apartments scattered across Europe. Burgess, argues Roger Lewis, was the writer as faker and prankster who lived, like an actor, by deception and illusion. Tracking his quarry from Manchester to Malaya to Malta to Monte Carlo, Lewis assesses Burgess's struggles and grudges and uncovers the webs of truth and lies.This biography is populated with a cast of drunks, nymphomaniacs, egotists, famous 20th-century authors, and actors. (Amazon).

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This biography is the culmination and distillation of 20 years' work on Anthony Burgess (1917-1993), the author who remains best known for "A Clockwork Orange", the source for Stanley Kubrick's classic film. Yet Burgess was the author of over 60 books, ranging from airport blockbusters to a history of the stagecoach, from brilliant studies of Joyce, Shakespeare, Hemingway and D.H. Lawrence, to meditations on music and pot-boilers on beds and pornography. When he died, he left approximately three million dollars in the bank and ten or so houses or apartments scattered across Europe. Burgess, argues Roger Lewis, was the writer as faker and prankster who lived, like an actor, by deception and illusion. Tracking his quarry from Manchester to Malaya to Malta to Monte Carlo, Lewis assesses Burgess's struggles and grudges and uncovers the webs of truth and lies.Thi s biography is populated with a cast of drunks, nymphomaniacs, egotists, famous 20th-century authors, and actors.

Review:

A bloody good read. -- Observer, 1 December 2002

A hugely entertaining comic fiction that explores all the agonies of authorship.." -- Independent, 30 November 2002

Lewis is an intellectual showman, a connoisseur of the arcane, a collector of titillating trivia. -- Express, 30 November 2002

There are passages of such brilliance ... that I found it exhilarating as well as infuriating. -- Lynn Barber, New Statesman, 2 December 2002

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0571204929
• ISBN 13: 9780571204922
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 480