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Fans of literary fiction, verse novels, and those interested in complex, darkly comic narratives set against historical backdrops will find Byrne compelling. Readers who appreciate technical poetic mastery and character-driven stories with moral complexity will especially enjoy this work.
Byrne
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.
Completed shortly before Burgess's death, this novel in verse is extravagantly original
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Completed shortly before Burgess's death, this novel in verse is extravagantly original.
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 journey takes him from post-Great War London to the centre of Hitler's Third Reich and then he vanishes. His twin sons travel across the troubled face of Europe to pursue their father for one final apocalyptic reckoning.
Byrne is a testament to Burgess's literary prowess, capturing the complexity of human nature in a unique poetic form.
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A rumbustious and dazzling finale to Burgess’s career, Byrne has been praised for its wit, erudition and engaging, darkly comic verse. Critics acclaim Burgess’s masterful use of ottava rima and his unique ability to blend narrative verse with prose fiction, making it a fitting tribute to one of literature’s most intelligent and tireless voices.
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ISBN: 9780099541424
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 February 2012
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 12.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 127g
Pages: 176
About the Author
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.
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