Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 06/05/2004
ISBN: 9780099468646
Length: 656 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 38mm x 129mm
Weight: 447g
RRP: £12.99
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
Published: 06/05/2004
ISBN: 9780099468646
Length: 656 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 38mm x 129mm
Weight: 447g
RRP: £12.99
Crowded, crammed, bursting with manic erudition, garlicky puns, omnilingual jokes... which meshes the real and personalised history of the twentieth century
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
Enormous imagination and vitality - a huge book in every way
A hellfire tract thrown down by a novelist at the peak of his powers
In all ways, a remarkable book