A Dead Man in Deptford - Hardcover

Burgess, Anthony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786701927 ISBN 13: 9780786701926

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub, 1995

Synopsis

The author's last novel recreates the life of the notorious playwright Christopher Marlowe, a reputed atheist and homosexual, and his times, capturing the atmosphere of Elizabethan England. By the author of A Clockwork Orange. 30,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.

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Review:

"Legendary intoxication with language and wordplay is very much in evidence as he (Burgess) evokes the raw, freewheeling spirit of the Elizabethan age" (The New York Times)

"The story is intensely true to the surfaces and smells of Elizabethan London, and also Burgess's own final meditation on his great themes, the sexual and artistic impulses, and their end in death. A masterpiece." (The Observer)

"If you want a Marlowe that breathes and an England that attacks the senses then you will find both in Anthony Burgess's astonishing final novel, A Dead Man in Deptford." (The Times)

"Burgess's novel moves with relish through fights, blasphemy and buggery to high talk of mathematics and necromancy in Raleigh's alternative think-tank, all written in well-judged pastiche." (The Independent)

"A fast, funny, flawless recreation" (The Week, Hilary Mantel)

Book Description:

Murder mystery based on the infamous life and death of Christopher Marlowe.

About this edition

• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0786701927
• ISBN 13: 9780786701926
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272