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100 1 _aLewis, Roger,
_d1960-
245 1 0 _aAnthony Burgess /
_cRoger Lewis.
250 _a1st U.S. ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bThomas Dunne Books,
_c2004.
300 _a434 p. :
_bill. ;
_c25 cm.
500 _aOriginally published: London : Faber and Faber, 2002.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _aPublisher description: Interviewer: "On what occasions do you lie?" Anthony Burgess: "When I write, when I speak, when I sleep." He was the last great modernist. Novelist, composer, librettist, essayist, semanticist, translator, critic, Anthony Burgess's versatility and erudition found expression in more than fifty books and dozens of musical compositions, from operas, choral works and song cycles to symphonies and concertos. Here now is a kaleidoscope of a book--the culmination of twenty years of writing and research--about a man who remains best known for A Clockwork Orange, the source of Stanley Kubrick's ground breaking, mind bending and prescient film. Tracking Burgess from Manchester to Malaya to Malta to Monte Carlo, the author assesses Burgess's struggles and uncovers the web of truth and illusion about the writer's famous antic disposition. Burgess, the author argues, was just as much a literary confidence man and prankster as a consummate wordsmith. Outrageously funny, honest and touching, Anthony Burgess explores the divisions that characterize its irascible subject and his darkly comic, bleakly beautiful world of fiction.
600 1 0 _aBurgess, Anthony,
_d1917-
650 0 _aAuthors, English
_y20th century
_vBiography.
650 0 _aCritics
_zGreat Britain
_vBiography.
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