Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917. He served in the army from 1940 to 1954 before becoming a colonial education officer. It was while he held this post that doctors told him he would die, and he decided to try to live by writing. A prolific and respected author, Burgess died in 1993.
Packed, provocative and masterly -- Sebastian Faulks Like the best of Burgess' novels, the book has terrific pace and vivacity... It is the story of a sort of Unlucky Jim LA Times