Earthly Powers

Author(s): Anthony Burgess

Fiction

In Earthly Powers Burgess created his masterpiece. At its center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power--Kenneth Toomey, a past-his-prime author of mediocre fiction, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into, bitter, luxurious old age, living in self-exile on Malta; and Don Carlo Campanati, a man of God, eventually of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood beloved Pope, who rises through the Vatican as a shrewd manipulator to become the architect.Through the lives of these two modern men Burgess explores the very essence of power in a narrative that spans from Hollywood, to Dublin, Nairobi, Paris, and beyond.


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Rollicking, panoramic epic of 20th century by the author of 'A Clockwork Orange'

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. A prolific and respected author, Burgess died in 1993.

General Fields

  • : 9780099468646
  • : Random House UK
  • : Random House UK
  • : 0.447
  • : July 2004
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 40mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Anthony Burgess
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 823.9/14