One man's chorus : the uncollected writings /

One man's chorus : the uncollected writings /

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Author / Creator:	Burgess, Anthony, 1917-1993.
Edition:	1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Imprint:	New York : Carroll & Graf, 1998.
Description:	xx, 380 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	English essays -- 20th century. English essays.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3496704

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Other authors / contributors:	Forkner, Ben.
ISBN:	078670568X 9780786705689 0786706996 9780786706990
Summary:	"A genuine master of the mot and the anecdote, Burgess rarely fails to amuse in this generous selection of essays on topics as various as oranges (not only of the clockwork variety), Marilyn Monroe, God, and Yiddish humor (his favorite one-liner, the Jewish matron's response to her son's psychiatrist: "Oedipus Schmoedipus - what's it matter so long as he loves his mother?")." "In other of these candid and sometimes cantankerous pieces written over the past two decades Burgess revisits his youth in Manchester, reconsiders his experiences among British colonials in Malaysia, and reevaluates his literary exile in Monaco. He examines his craft, he carps at critics, he reflects upon literature and litterateurs, from such twentieth-century giants as James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf to the eccentric Sitwells to fellow novelists Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene."--Jacket.

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Summary:	In a collection of nonfiction writings, the British novelist addresses his childhood, his experiences in Malaysia and Monaco, his own work and its critics, and the work of his contemporaries.
Physical Description:	xx, 380 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:	078670568X 9780786705689 0786706996 9780786706990