Earthly Powers - Anthony Burgess
KORTE INHOUD
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Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange, is regarded as one of the most original and daring writers in the English language. His work is illuminated by a dazzling imagination, by a gift for character and plot, by a talent for surprise.
In Earthly Powers, Burgess created his masterpiece. At its center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power ? Kenneth Toomey, eminent novelist, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into honored, bitter, luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety; and Don Carlo Campanati, a man of God, eventually beloved Pope, who rises through the Vatican as a shrewd manipulator to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood.
Through the lives of these two modern men Burgess explores the very essence of power. As each pursues his career ? one to sainthood, one to wealthy exile ? their relationship becomes the heart of a narrative that incorporates almost everyone of fame and distinction in the soci...
Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange, is regarded as one of the most original and daring writers in the English language. His work is illuminated by a dazzling imagination, by a gift for character and plot, by a talent for surprise.
In Earthly Powers, Burgess created his masterpiece. At its center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power ? Kenneth Toomey, eminent novelist, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into honored, bitter, luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety; and Don Carlo Campanati, a man of God, eventually beloved Pope, who rises through the Vatican as a shrewd manipulator to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood.
Through the lives of these two modern men Burgess explores the very essence of power. As each pursues his career ? one to sainthood, one to wealthy exile ? their relationship becomes the heart of a narrative that incorporates almost everyone of fame and distinction in the soci...
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1982, paperback, user wear, age tanned, fairly good copy [Auteur: Burgess, Anthony] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Penguin] [Jaar: 1982] [Titel: Earthly Powers]
