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Earthly Powers

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099468646

  • Length: 656  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 40mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 447g

  • RRP: £12.99

Earthly Powers

Kenneth Toomey is an eminent novelist of dubious talent; Don Carlo Campanati is a man of God, a shrewd manipulator who rises through the Vatican to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood. These two men are linked not only by family ties but by a common understanding of mankind's frailties. In this epic masterpiece, Anthony Burgess plumbs the depths of the essence of power and the lengths men will go for it.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099468646

  • Length: 656  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 40mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 447g

  • RRP: £12.99

Reviews

  • 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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About the Author

Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917. From 1954 to 1960 he was stationed in Malaysia as an education officer - during this time he started writing The Malayan Trilogy. Diagnosed with an unoperable brain tumour in 1959, Burgess became a full-time writer and went on to write a book a year up until his death in 1993. His many works include: The Complete Enderby, Tremor of Intent, The Kingdom of the Wicked and A Clockwork Orange.

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