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Earthly Powers
Anthony Burgess
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Description for Earthly Powers
Paperback. 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. In this book, the author plumbs the depths of the essence of power and the lengths men will go for it. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 42. Weight in Grams: 458.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
656
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
656
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099468646
SKU
V9780099468646
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About Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917 and educated at Xaverian College and Manchester University. He served in the British army from 1940 to 1946 and was a schoolteacher in England before becoming a colonial education officer in 1954. His Malayan trilogy of novels and a history of English literature were published while he was living in Malaya and ... Read more
Reviews for Earthly Powers
Crowded, crammed, bursting with manic erudition, garlicky puns, omnilingual jokes... which meshes the real and personalised history of the twentieth century
Martin Amis 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 ... Read more
Martin Amis 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 ... Read more