{"product_id":"9781466864528","title":"Anthony Burgess: A Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003eInterviewer: \"On what occasions do you lie?\" Anthony Burgess: \"When I write, when I speak, when I sleep.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was the last great modernist. Novelist, composer, librettist, essayist, semanticist, translator, critic, Anthony Burgess's versatility and erudition found expression in more than fifty books and dozens of musical compositions, from operas, choral works and song cycles to symphonies and concertos. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere now is a kaleidoscope of a book--the culmination of twenty years of writing and research--about a man who remains best known for \u003ci\u003eA Clockwork Orange\u003c\/i\u003e, the source of Stanley Kubrick's ground breaking, mind bending and prescient film.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracking Burgess from Manchester to Malaya to Malta to Monte Carlo, Roger Lewis assesses Burgess's struggles and uncovers the web of truth and illusion about the writer's famous antic disposition. Burgess, the author argues, was just as much a literary confidence man and prankster as a consummate wordsmith. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOutrageously funny, honest and touching,\u003ci\u003e Anthony Burgess\u003c\/i\u003e explores the divisions that characterize its irascible subject and his darkly comic, bleakly beautiful world of fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47144002748656,"sku":"9781466864528","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466864528_p0.jpg?v=1769891896","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466864528","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}