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| | Amazon.com: One Man's Chorus: The Uncollected Writings: Books: Anthony Burgess,Ben Forkner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | He saw himself as a fiction writer who had vainly wished to be a composer, and a critic only for want of a better way to earn ready cash. |
 | | While this posthumous collection of essays, articles, and occasional pieces from the last two decades of Burgesss life hardly ranks with his more signal works such as Byrne, (1997), and Clockwork Orange, (1962), its erudition, deftness, and polymathic range make it an exceptionally good read. |
 | | In these previously uncollected essays written over the past two decades by Anthony Burgess, the masterful English novelist and elegant stylist, contemplates topics as various as oranges, Marilyn Monroe, Yiddish humor, dirty pictures, and the nature of God. |
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