A delirious yet definitive biography of the author of "A Clockwork Orange.
Joysprick: An Introduction to the Language of James Joyce
Collected interviews with the British author of A Clockwork Orange, ReJoyce: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader, and other works
Discusses the history of New York City and describes the city, its people and their way of life today.
(Applause Books). Anthony Burgess was the author of over 50 books, including his best known novel, "A Clockwork Orange." But Burgess always emphasized music as the ruling passion in his creative life.
Anthony Burgess has attracted acclaim and notoriety in roughly equal measure.
An exploration of the very essence of power centers on two men who represent different types of earthly power--one an eminent novelist and well-known homosexual, the other a man of God who rises through the Vatican hierarchy.
Anthony Burgess
He was six feet tall, huge-chested, handsome, ebullient, a warrior, a hunter, a fisherman, a drinker.' Ernest Hemingway was 'a man who lived it up to write it down' and his life became the root from which his novels grew.
Set in the near future, The Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce.
It ends in 1983. The book is the sequel to "Little Wilson and Big God."