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Earthly Powers

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099468646

  • Length: 656  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 40mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 447g

  • RRP: £10.99

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: £10.99

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. He served in the army from 1940 to 1954 before becoming a colonial education officer. It was while he held this post that doctors told him he would die, and he decided to try to live by writing. He achieved a worldwide reputation as one of the leading novelists of his day, and one of the most versitile. His writings include criticism, scripts and translations, and a Broadway musical, and he composed three symphonies which have been publicly performed in the USA. His books have been published all over the world and include A Clockwork Orange, The Clockwork Testament, Inside Mr Enderby, Enderby's Dark Lady, Earthly Powers, Abba Abba and The End of the World News. Anthony Burgess died in 1993.

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