Byrne

Informationen zum Autor Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917 and educated at Xaverian College and Manchester University. He served in the British army from 1940 to 1946 and was a schoolteacher in England before becoming a colonial education officer in 1954. His Malayan trilogy of novels and a history of English literature were published while he was living in Malaya and Brunei. He became a full-time writer in 1959 and achieved a worldwide reputation as one of the most versatile novelists of his day. His writings include biographies of Shakespeare and Hemingway, critical studies of James Joyce, stage plays, and two volumes of autobiography. His work as a composer and librettist includes the Broadway musical, Cyrano , and Blooms of Dublin , an operetta based on Joyce's Ulysses . His 33 novels continue to be published all over the world. They include A Clockwork Orange , Nothing Like the Sun , The Complete Enderby , Earthly Powers , Napoleon Symphony , and Beard's Roman Women , a collaboration with the photographer David Robinson. Anthony Burgess died in London in 1993. Zusammenfassung Michael Byrne is an Irish Don Juan - a composer, a charmer, a bigamist and a thug. He moves from country to country, from bed to bed, selling his talents and leaving a trail of children in his wake. His twin sons travel across the troubled face of Europe to pursue their father for one final apocalyptic reckoning.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Burgess, Burgess Anthony
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.02.2012
• EAN: 9780099541424
• ISBN: 978-0-09-954142-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Europe, FICTION / Literary, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, FICTION / World Literature / England / 20th Century, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary