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Earthly Powers
Full title: | Earthly Powers |
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ISBN: | 9781609450847 |
ISBN 10: | 1609450841 |
Authors: | Burgess, Anthony |
Publisher: | Europa Editions |
Edition: | Reissue |
Num. pages: | 656 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Language: | en |
Published on: | 2012 |
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Synopsis
In Earthly Powers Burgess created his masterpiece. At its center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power—Kenneth Toomey, a past-his-prime author of mediocre fiction, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into, bitter, luxurious old age, living in self-exile on Malta; and Don Carlo Campanati, a man of God, eventually of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood beloved Pope, who rises through the Vatican as a shrewd manipulator to become the architect.Through the lives of these two modern men Burgess explores the very essence of power in a narrative that spans from Hollywood, to Dublin, Nairobi, Paris, and beyond.