- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies (1 Jan 1984)
- ISBN-10: 0070089744
- ISBN-13: 978-0070089747
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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After a failed suicide attempt at the end of Inside Mr. Enderby, the protagonist is now under psychiatric care, his Muse having deserted him, and is working as a bartender at a large London hotel. Under the name of Hogg he is persuaded to renounce poetic creativity as an adolescent pastime, and to do something useful instead. Funny and original.
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I read this book after I'd read A Clockwork Testament, one of the other, and excellent, Enderby novels. This was a grave disappointment. It is full of what Martin Amis called the 'virile quirks' of Burgess's style, but virility is here used as an insult. Burgess's characterizations consist mainly of repeated vocal habits, as manipulative of the reader as bad Dickens, and the plot includes too much poetry which is probably originally by Burgess in some other literary incarnation but is palmed off on the hero, Hogg, to fill up space. This book reads as if it has been written by a genius with a deadline.
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