Earthly Powers

Vintage Classics

By: Anthony Burgess

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Paperback | 1 July 2004 | Edition Number 1

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656 Pages

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Anthony Burgess' epic masterpiece

Earthly Powers traces eighty- one years in the life of a Somerset Maugham- type writer and lapsed Catholic called Kenneth Toomey. A popular, second- rate novelist/playwright, he spends a lifetime unsuccessfully trying to reconcile his homosexuality with his faith. This is also the story of Carlo Campanati, an earthy Italian priest linked with Toomey through family ties. With dazzlingly inventive narrative spanning six decades, Burgess draws in major events and characters of the century while exploring themes of universal significance.

About the Author

Born in Manchester in 1917, Anthony Burgess was educated at Manchester University, of which he held a doctorate. He served in the army from 1940 to 1956. His output comprises over fifty books. Anthony Burgess died in 1993.

Industry 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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