In these previously uncollected essays written over the past two decades by Anthony Burgess, the masterful English novelist and elegant stylist contemplates topics as various as oranges, Marilyn Monroe, Yiddish humor, dirty pictures, and the nature of God. His highlights include reflections upon literature and litterateurs, from such twentieth-century literary giants as James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf to the eccentric Sitwells to fellow novelists Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene. Whether the subject is Charlie Chaplin or Margaret Thatcher, or Prince Hamlet, Burgess's one-man chorus is guaranteed to win your enthusiastic applause.
- ISBN10 0786706996
- ISBN13 9780786706990
- Publish Date 1 January 2000
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 6 August 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 400
- Language English