Earthly Powers - Couverture souple

Burgess, Anthony

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099468646 ISBN 13 : 9780099468646

Editeur : Vintage Classics, 2004

Synopsis

Earthly Powers 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. Full description

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

'A hellfire tract thrown down by a novelist at the peak of his powers' The Times

Kenneth Toomey is an eminent novelist of dubious talent. Don Carlo Campanati is a man of God, 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.

'Crowded, crammed, bursting with manic erudition, garlicky puns, omnilingual jokes...meshes the real and personalised history of the twentieth century'

Martin Amis

See also: The Malayan Trilogy

Revue de presse :

"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 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)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Vintage Classics
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0099468646
• ISBN 13: 9780099468646
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 656