Name: right to an answer
SKU: 2540784
Price: 31.44 EUR
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Author: Anthony Burgess
ISBN: 9780393008876

Type

Physical Book

Author

Anthony Burgess

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3x12.7x1.5 cm

Weight

0.29 kg.

ISBN

0393008878

ISBN13

9780393008876

Synopsis "right to an answer"

The playground of Mr. Burgess' humor is a city to which his hero, Denham, J. W., businessman, forty, British, returns on leave from the Far East to find the face of England hardened into a standardized grimace. He is appalled by his observations in all quarters of cheapness, shallowness, vice. He is appalled also by monotony. But monotony reigns only briefly. Soon Everett, the broken-down poet, and Winterbottom, the printer, have involved him in affairs which put a strain on his holiday spirit. And with the appearance of Mr. Raj, Ceylonese gentleman, persistent lecher and unflagging sociologist, speed quickens and control diminishes as Denham is carried helpless down the homestretch of his grueling comic course. Mr. Burgess' humor stems from the depth of life rather than from its surface. His people are so vividly alive, and the anger, laughter and melodrama of their experiences so affecting that their story takes on dimension rare in novels so thoroughly entertaining.

Anthony Burgess

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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.

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