Byrne
a novel
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Word Count
40,000 words, Guess
Page Count
160 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8140882M
- ISBN-100786705752
- ISBN-139780786705757
- LibraryThing305837
- OCLC Control Number40310191
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- Better World Books9780786705757
Classifications
- DDC823/.914
Description
When Anthony Burgess died in 1993 he left the complete "Byrne," a novel in epic verse. This is the first American publication. Byrne tells the astonishing story of an Irish artist who, in the early years of this century, goes rapidly to the bad, bedding and abandoning women everywhere, debasing his talents as a composer and painter, and finally ending up within Hitler's Third Reich, at which point he vanishes. After his disappearance, the story passes to his twin sons, one a doubting priest, the other suffering from a debilitating disease, who move across the troubled face of contemporary Europe before encountering their father in one final apocalyptic confrontation.
First Sentence
Somebody had to do it.
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