One Man's Chorus: the Uncollected Writings - Hardcover

Burgess, Anthony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 078670568X ISBN 13: 9780786705689

Verlag: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Burgess Anthony Forkner Ben

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Reseña del editor:

A genuine master of the mot and the anecdote, Burgess rarely fails to amuse in this generous selection of essays on topics as various as oranges (not only of the clockwork variety), Marilyn Monroe, God, and Yiddish humor (his favorite one-liner, the Jewish matron's response to her son's psychiatrist: "Oedipus Schmoedipus - what's it matter so long as he loves his mother?"). In other of these candid and sometimes cantankerous pieces written over the past two decades Burgess revisits his youth in Manchester, reconsiders his experiences among British colonials in Malaysia, and reevaluates his literary exile in Monaco. He examines his craft, he carps at critics, he reflects upon literature and litterateurs, from such twentieth-century giants as James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf to the eccentric Sitwells to fellow novelists Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene.

Reseña del editor:

One Man''s Chorus is a sampler of thought and opinion from the author of A Clockwork Orange. Burgess rarely fails to amuse in this generous selection of essays on topics as various as oranges, Marilyn Monroe, God and Yiddish humour.'

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• Verlag: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 078670568X
• ISBN 13: 9780786705689
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368