Anthony Burgess

Little Wilson and Big God (Vintage Classics)

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ISBN 13:: 9780099437055
author:: Anthony Burgess
format:: Paperback
publisher:: Vintage Classics
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2002
Pages:: 48
Dimensions:: 13 x 3.2 x 19.7 cm
Genre:: Biography, Historical, 1901 Onwards,
Condition:: New
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Little Wilson and Big God is the first part of Anthony Burgess's two-volume autobiography, tracing the life of a young man from his birth in 1917 to the start of his writing career in 1959. Born into a Catholic family with Irish and Lancashire roots, Burgess grew up in a tough Manchester area, where he struggled to find an outlet for his artistic talent. This memoir also explores his efforts to reconcile his Catholic faith with his early experiences of sex, as well as his tumultuous first marriage and his time in the army. Burgess's life took him to Malaya and Borneo, where he worked as an education officer, before finding solace in writing at the age of thirty-seven. It was during this period, marked by personal turmoil and heavy drinking, that he began to write the novels that would establish his reputation as a writer. This first part of Burgess's autobiography offers a candid and introspective look at his early life, struggles, and the events that led him to become a writer.

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