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My Name Is Legion

A.N. Wilson

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English
Arrow
01 April 2005
'Brilliantly inventive... A disturbing and highly original novel' Stephen Glover, Daily Mail

The Daily Legion is a tabloid that peddles celebrity gossip and denounces asylum seekers. However, its financial survival depends on the support of a brutal African government. Recklessly defending this corrupt dictatorship, the newspaper faces off against Father Vivyan Chell, an Anglican monk and missionary who is working to overthrow the corrupt regime.

My Name Is Legion is a savage satire on the morality of contemporary Britain - its Press, its politics, its Church, its rich, its underclass. Wilson's London is a bleak, if occasionally hilarious, place- murderous, lustful, money-obsessed and haunted by strange gods.
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Imprint:   Arrow
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 31mm
Weight:   352g
ISBN:   9780099457947
ISBN 10:   0099457946
Pages:   352
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Recommended Age:   From 0 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

A.N. Wilson was born in 1950 and educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has held a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. The Victorians, Wilson's study of the Victorian age, was published in 2002 to massive critical acclaim. His previous book, Iris Murdoch As I Knew Her, is now available in Arrow paperback. He lives in North London.

Reviews for My Name Is Legion

Far and away the best novel of the year was A. N. Wilson's angry, passionate and spiritual onslaught on modern Mammon and the media... which should have won the Man Booker prize, but typically was not shortlisted -- Hugh Massingberd Spectator A wonderful, thrilling depiction of media manipulation, corruption, tolerance and promiscuity. It's so good, and so wise, it hurts. It's the late-20th century in a gulp -- Frances Fyfield The Week A real rattler of an entertainment -- Philip Hensher Spectator Blisteringly funny... My Name Is Legion is not one of those soft-centred satires that ducks the issue. It throws down the gauntlet to Fleet Street and asks some tough questions of the newspapers we read -- David Robson Sunday Telegraph My Name Is Legion weaves a compelling modern morality tale of crime and punishment that links the world of the rich and powerful to that of the poor and dispossessed... All of this is highly enjoyable, and kept going with an irresistibly waspish verve -- Amanda Craig Independent on Sunday


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