Clockwork Orange

• Utgivningsdatum: 2012-09-06
• Mått: 159 x 232 x 32 mm
• Vikt: 660 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Serie: William Heinemann
• Antal sidor: 352
• Förlag: Cornerstone
• Medarbetare: Martin Amis
• ISBN: 9780434021512

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Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917 and educated at Xaverian College and Manchester University. He served in the British army from 1940 to 1946 and was a schoolteacher in England before becoming a colonial education officer in 1954. His Malayan trilogy of novels and a history of English literature were published while he was living in Malaya and Brunei.He became a full-time writer in 1959 and achieved a worldwide reputation as one of the most versatile novelists of his day. His writings include biographies of Shakespeare and Hemingway, critical studies of James Joyce, stage plays, and two volumes of autobiography. His work as a composer and librettist includes the Broadway musical, Cyrano, and Blooms of Dublin, an operetta based on Joyce's Ulysses.His 33 novels continue to be published all over the world. They include A Clockwork Orange, Nothing Like the Sun, The Complete Enderby, Earthly Powers, Napoleon Symphony, and Beard's Roman Women, a collaboration with the photographer David Robinson.Anthony Burgess died in London in 1993.

A terrifying and marvellous book.

2 recensioner, genomsnitt 3/5

1. 1/5 Therese 2014-01-10

   Jag hade hört många lovord om denna bok, men jag klarade inte av att läsa mer än ett par sidor. Den fick mig att må riktigt dåligt. Hemsk är den - en riktig dystopi. Det är nog bra att veta vad man ger sig in på och inte bara välja den för att den är en "klassiker".

2. 5/5 Andreas 2016-10-03