The Right to an Answer
The playground of Mr. Burgess' humor is a city to which his hero, Denham, J. W., businessman, forty, British, returns on leave from the Far East to find the face of England hardened into a standardized grimace. He is appalled by his observations in all quarters of cheapness, shallowness, vice. He is appalled also by monotony. But monotony reigns only briefly. Soon Everett, the broken-down poet, and Winterbottom, the printer, have involved him in affairs which put a strain on his holiday spirit. And with the appearance of Mr. Raj, Ceylonese gentleman, persistent lecher and unflagging sociologist, speed quickens and control diminishes as Denham…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-00887-6
- EAN: 9780393008876
- Produktnummer: 3460692
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1978
- Seitenangabe: 264 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B12.7 cm x D1.5 cm 290 g
- Gewicht: 290
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Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) is the author of many works, including The Wanting Seed, Nothing Like the Sun, and Re Joyce. A Clockwork Orange is one of the 100 best novels of both Time magazine and Modern Library and is on David Bowie's Book List.
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