{"product_id":"9781511319225","title":"M\/F","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The situation as far as I'm concerned,\" says the young narrator-hero of \u003ci\u003eM\/F\u003c\/i\u003e, \"is an interesting one. In two days in a strange country I've acquired a mother in the form of a Welsh-speaking Bird Queen who scares me. I've spent some hours in prison, I've discovered the works of an unknown superlative artist in a garden shed and I've been shot at by a riddling lion-faced expert on Bishop Berkeley. Most interesting of all I'm due tonight to be married by a circus clown to my own sister.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlmost 21, a college throw-out, Miles Faber embarks on a defiant pilgrimage across the Caribbean. His destination: the shrine of Sib Legeru, Castitian poet and painter. In the streets of Castita's capital, gay with a religious festival, a series of bizarre revelations awaits him—his own double (the foul-mouthed son of a circus sorceress) and a plump sister he had never met before. Unspeakable crimes of blood and lust are perpetrated against both before Miles, solving the final riddle, wakes—like Oedipus—to find himself a willing victim of the machinations of dynastic destiny. \u003ci\u003eM\/F\u003c\/i\u003e is an outrageous entertainment, full of humour and invention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnthony Burgess (25th February 1917-22nd November 1993) was one of the UK's leading academics and most respected literary figures. A prolific author, during his writing career Burgess found success as a novelist, critic, composer, playwright, screenwriter, travel writer, essayist, poet and librettist, as well as working as a translator, broadcaster, linguist, and educationalist. His fiction includes \u003ci\u003eNothing Like the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e, a recreation of Shakespeare's love-life, but he is perhaps most famous for the complex and controversial novel \u003ci\u003eA Clockwork Orange\u003c\/i\u003e, exploring the nature of evil. Born in Manchester, he spent time living in Southeast Asia, the USA, and Mediterranean Europe, as well as in England, until his death in 1993.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brilliance Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054679212272,"sku":"9781511319225","price":13.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781511319225_p0.jpg?v=1763723099","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781511319225","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}