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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 social, literary, and political life of America and Europe. This astonishing company is joined together by the art of a great novelist into an explosive and entertaining tour de force that will captivate fans of sweeping historic fiction.
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Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1981
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- (Paperback)
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- Titel
- Earthly Powers
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Anthony Burgess
- Verlag
- Penguin Books
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1981
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 649
- ISBN10
- 0140058966
- ISBN13
- 9780140058963
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historische Romane, Religiöse Themen, Klassiker, Britische Literatur, Englische Literatur, Schriftsteller, Vatikan, Marokko
- Bewertung
- 4,15 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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 social, literary, and political life of America and Europe. This astonishing company is joined together by the art of a great novelist into an explosive and entertaining tour de force that will captivate fans of sweeping historic fiction.