Earthly Powers
Rollicking, panoramic epic of 20th century by the author of 'A Clockwork Orange'
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Earthly Powers Paperback ISBN: 9780099468646 Published: 01/07/2004 Imprint: Vintage Classics Extent: 656 pages Subject: Classics $12.95 RRP
Synopsis
'Crowded, crammed, bursting with manic erudition, garlicky puns, omnilingual jokes... which meshes the real and personalised history of the twentieth century'
Martin Amis
Kenneth Toomey is an eminent novelist of dubious talent; Don Carlo Campanati is a man of God, a shrewd manipulator who rises through the Vatican to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood. These two men are linked not only by family ties but by a common understanding of mankind's frailties. In this epic masterpiece, Anthony Burgess plumbs the depths of the essence of power and the lengths men will go for it.
Editorial Reviews
"Readers on the lookout for a big, bold, ambitious and bawdy saga sustained by bravura ambition, ideas, facts and authorial cunning that is not written by James Joyce, need seek no further, the maverick genius Anthony Burgess has a field day in his epic race through the 20th century... Early Powers is a lively and likeable extravaganza about sin and spirituality, corruption and fear, told with vicious wit, intelligence and panache by a singular original we have never fully appreciated" - Eileen Battersby, Irish Times
"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
"Wildly funny-a masterpiece" - A. S. Byatt, Daily Mail
"Burgess's ambitious study of 20th-century history centers on the stormy relationship between an effete, popular novelist and a Faustian priest" - Publishers Weekly
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