Name: Byrne (Vintage Classics)
Price: 563.00 ZAR
Availability: InStock
Author: Anthony Burgess
ISBN: 9780099541424

Select your country

Americas

Europe

Rest of the world

Type

Physical Book

Author

Anthony Burgess

Publisher

Vintage Classic

Topic

novela extranjera

Year

2012

Language

English

Pages

176

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0099541424

ISBN13

9780099541424

Edition No.

Byrne (Vintage Classics)

Anthony Burgess (Author) · Vintage Classic · Paperback

New Book Imported to South Africa

Delivery: 23 Jul - 21 Aug

R 563

R 563

Add to Wishlist

Synopsis "Byrne (Vintage Classics) "

Paperback. Pages: 176 Publisher: Random House UK Completed shortly before Burgess's death. This novel in verse is extravagantly original. Byrne is Anthony Burgess's final work: an epic verse novel. Michael Byrne is a minor modern composer with greater talent in bed than in the concert hall. A bigamist. a charmer and a thug. Byrne sells his talents as a composer and painter. ending up in Hitler's Third Reich. He moves opportunistically from country to country and from bed to bed. leaving a small tribe of children across the globe. He then vanishes and the story passes to his children. including twin sons. one a doubting priest. the other sick of an incapacitating disease. who move across the troubled face of contemporary Europe before encountering their father in one final apocalyptic confrontation. illiantly readable. enormously funny and full of passion and energy. it is al...

Anthony Burgess

(Author)

View Author's Page

John Anthony Burgess Wilson /ˈbɜːdʒəs/ was a British writer and composer, who produced a prolific body of literary and musical work, generally known for the novel A Clockwork Orange in 1962, which became famous through the homonymous film by Stanley Kubrick in 1971.

See less