- Published: 4 October 2012
- ISBN: 9781448161584
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 656
Earthly Powers
Formats & editions
- Published: 4 October 2012
- ISBN: 9781448161584
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 656
Crowded, crammed, bursting with manic erudition, garlicky puns, omnilingual jokes... which meshes the real and personalised history of the twentieth century
Martin Amis
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
Burgess's ambitious study of 20th-century history centers on the stormy relationship between an effete, popular novelist and a Faustian priest
Publishers Weekly