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Right to an Answer by Anthony Burgess (1978, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393008878
ISBN-139780393008876
eBay Product ID (ePID)2065529
Product Key Features
Book TitleRight to an Answer
Number of Pages264 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1978
TopicHumorous / Black Humor, Satire
GenreFiction
AuthorAnthony Burgess
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight10.3 Oz
Item Length0.7 in
Item Width0.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
TitleLeadingThe
Synopsis"Mr. Burgess has invented complex, varying people, and he has moved them well, giving them much to suffer and to do. . . .In the closing pages, Burgess has set off a wild joke in which all his themes--poetry, England, race, love--crackle and sparkle in a gloriously funny surprise. . . .The book is. . .a nicely controlled examination of some human predicaments that is cunningly disguised as entertainment." --Naomi Bliven, New Yorker, The playground of Mr. Burgess' humor is a city to which his hero, Denham, J. W., businessman, forty, British, returns on leave from the Far East to find the face of England hardened into a standardized grimace. He is appalled by his observations in all quarters of cheapness, shallowness, vice. He is appalled also by monotony. But monotony reigns only briefly. Soon Everett, the broken-down poet, and Winterbottom, the printer, have involved him in affairs which put a strain on his holiday spirit. And with the appearance of Mr. Raj, Ceylonese gentleman, persistent lecher and unflagging sociologist, speed quickens and control diminishes as Denham is carried helpless down the homestretch of his grueling comic course. Mr. Burgess' humor stems from the depth of life rather than from its surface. His people are so vividly alive, and the anger, laughter and melodrama of their experiences so affecting that their story takes on dimension rare in novels so thoroughly entertaining.
