- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Vintage Classics; New Ed edition (8 Aug 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099593017
- ISBN-13: 978-0099593010
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 1 x 12.9 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,173,647 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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BYRNE is Anthony Burgess's fianl work: an epic verse novel. It tells the story of a rampant Irish artist who, in the early years of this century, goes rapidly to the bad, philandering at every opportunity, selling his talents as a composer and painter, and ending up in Hitler's Third Reich. He then vanishes and the story passes to his children, including twin sons, one a doubting priest, the other sick of an incapacitating disease, who move across the troubled face of contemporary Europe before encountering their father in one final apocalyptic confrontation. Brilliantly readable, enormously funny and full of passion and energy, it is also Anthony Burgess's last powerful statement of life and art.
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'A rumbustious memorial to one of the most unignorable literary presences of our time' Peter Kemp, Sunday Times
'Anthony Burgess was the most surprising of novelists, but I doubt anyone could have foreseen that his last novel would be in dazzling rhyming stanzas. In Byrne he tells the story of the son of an Irish composer who had been thoroughly complicitous with the Nazis, a bigamist, a charmer, a thug...A brilliant and surprising conclusion to the career of one of the most intelligent and tireless writers of the century' Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday
'If you want to know what Burges was all about...then read the 150 pages of Byrne. It's a fine book and a perfect primer' Nicholas Wroe, Independent
'Byrne is full of his characteristic wit, gusto and erudition' David Lodge, Books of the Year, Observer
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