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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.
Burgess is the great postmodern storehouse of British writing-an important experimentalist; an encyclopaedic amasser, but also a maker of form; a playful comic, with a dark gloom -- Malcolm Bradbury Enormous imagination and vitality - a huge book in every way Sunday Times A hellfire tract thrown down by a novelist at the peak of his powers The Times In all ways, a remarkable book -- Paul Theroux Wildly funny-a masterpiece -- A. S. Byatt Daily Mail
