Byrne

Author(s): Anthony Burgess

Classic

Michael Byrne is a minor modern composer with greater talent in bed than in the concert hall. A bigamist, a charmer and a thug, Byrne sells his talents as a composer and painter, ending up in Hitler's Third Reich. He moves opportunistically from country to country and from bed to bed, leaving a small tribe of children across the globe.

General Information

  • : 9780099541424
  • : Vintage
  • : Vintage Classics
  • : 0.13
  • : 01 January 2012
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 01 March 2012
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Anthony Burgess
  • : Paperback
  • : 823.914
  • : 176

More About The Product

Completed shortly before Burgess's death, this novel in verse is extravagantly original.

Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917. He served in the army from 1940 to 1954 before becoming a colonial education officer. It was while he held this post that doctors told him he would die, and he decided to try to live by writing. A prolific and respected author, Burgess died in 1993.