Byrne
Author(s): Anthony Burgess
Michael Byrne is a minor modern composer with greater talent in bed than in the concert hall. A bigamist, a charmer and a thug, Byrne sells his talents as a composer and painter, ending up in Hitler's Third Reich. He moves opportunistically from country to country and from bed to bed, leaving a small tribe of children across the globe.
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Completed shortly before Burgess's death, this novel in verse is extravagantly original.
Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917. He served in the army from 1940 to 1954 before becoming a colonial education officer. It was while he held this post that doctors told him he would die, and he decided to try to live by writing. A prolific and respected author, Burgess died in 1993.
General Fields
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- : Vintage
- : Vintage Classics
- : 0.13
- : 31 December 2011
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 March 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : 176
- : 823.914
- : Paperback
- : Anthony Burgess