Anthony Burgess.
Lewis, Roger.
Place Published: London:
Publisher: Faber and Faber,
Date Published: 2002.
Description: STATED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3). The book is in FINE condition. The dust jacket is NEAR FINE with dogeared ends to front inside flap. NOT price-clipped, NOT remaindered. 434 pages plus 8 pages black & white photos. Comes with BRODART archival jacket cover. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines, and treasures related to the Duke & Duchess of Windsor..and other curious subjects. Dust jacket notes read: "Using the techniques of fiction and memoir, as well as being a thorough and definitive scholarly investigation, this delirious kaleidoscope of a book is the culmination of twenty years' work on Anthony Burgess (1917-93], the author who remains best known for A Clockwork Orange, the source of Stanley Kubrick's classic film. Yet Burgess was the author of over sixty other brightly-coloured books, ranging from airport blockbusters to a history of the stagecoach, from brilliant collections of literary journalism and studies of Joyce, Shakespeare, Hemingway and Lawrence, to meditations on music and pot-boilers on beds and pornography. He wrote the script for Jesus of Nazareth and successfully translated Cyrano de Bergerac for the RSC. His adaptation of Carmen, however, was scorned and his operetta, Blooms of Dublin, was considered the worst thing anyone had ever heard. When he died he left approximately $3 million in the bank and ten or so houses and apartments scattered across Europe. Burgess, Roger Lewis argues, was the writer as faker and prankster who lived, like an actor, by deception and illusion. Tracking his quarry from Manchester to Malaya to Malta to Monte Carlo, Lewis assesses Burgess' struggles and grudges and uncovers the webs of truth and illusion. As with his great biographies of Peter Sellers, Laurence Olivier and Charles Hawtrey, he has written a modern classic about an antic disposition, Outrageously funny, honest, and touching, Anthony Burgess explores the divisions that characterized its subject and conjures a cast of drunks, nymphomaniacs, egotists, journalists and famous twentieth-century authors."
Edition: First editionBinding: Hard Back
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj
ISBN: 0571204929
Book Id: 9724
Price: $13.75
