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Anthony Burgess and America

The untold story behind the American influences on Burgess's life, work, and legacy

By Christopher W Thurley

Anthony Burgess and America
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  • ISBN: 9781526174147
  • Publish Date: Mar 2025
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
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    • Format: Hardcover
    • Pages: 376
    • Price: £95.00
    • Published Date: March 2025

    Description

    Anthony Burgess and America is a biographical and critical analysis of Burgess's commentary on and relationship with the United States of America.

    Utilising Burgess's entire canon and newly discovered materials to assess Burgess's views on America, this book also evaluates the American inspirations in five Burgess novels. This essential addition to Burgess scholarship tells the story of a nearly unexplored area of Burgess's life. For the first time ever, Burgess's American experiences, work, and documented communication, lectures, interviews and public utterances are brought together to assess where these commentaries overlapped with his fiction.

    The result is a complex personal and public history about one of Britain's greatest twentieth century authors and their immersion into and interaction with American culture in the second half of the twentieth century.

    Contents

    Introduction
    1 On His Mind (1959-66)
    2 Burgess on the United States
    3 M/F (1971)
    4 The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End (1974) and New York (1976)
    5 Earthly Powers (1980)
    6 The End of the World News (1982)
    7 Enderby's Dark Lady, or No End to Enderby (1984)
    8 After America
    Conclusion
    Index

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    Christopher W. Thurley, Ph.D. is an English Instructor at Gaston College

    Anthony Burgess and America

    By Christopher W Thurley

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