Earthly Powers
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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A sweeping work of literary fiction, Earthly Powers chronicles eight decades of the twentieth century through the eyes of Kenneth Toomey, an aging, prolific, and openly homosexual novelist whose long life intersects with some of the era's most defining figures, events, and moral catastrophes. Burgess constructs a vast, ambitious narrative that uncovers the tangled relationship between art, religion, and power, drawing Toomey into a complex orbit around a charismatic Catholic cardinal whose sainthood cause forces a reckoning with the nature of good and evil. The novel presents its grand themes with a tone that is simultaneously sardonic and deeply serious, wielding Burgess's legendary linguistic virtuosity to illuminate how ideology and faith can be corrupted by human ambition. Widely regarded as one of the great English novels of the twentieth century, it argues that the capacity for both transcendent goodness and monstrous evil resides within the same human institutions — and the same human hearts. Rich with historical cameos, moral complexity, and dark wit, Earthly Powers stands as a monumental achievement in scope, intelligence, and storytelling craft.
Author: Anthony Burgess
Format: Paperback
Published: 1981, Penguin Books
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A sweeping work of literary fiction, Earthly Powers chronicles eight decades of the twentieth century through the eyes of Kenneth Toomey, an aging, prolific, and openly homosexual novelist whose long life intersects with some of the era's most defining figures, events, and moral catastrophes. Burgess constructs a vast, ambitious narrative that uncovers the tangled relationship between art, religion, and power, drawing Toomey into a complex orbit around a charismatic Catholic cardinal whose sainthood cause forces a reckoning with the nature of good and evil. The novel presents its grand themes with a tone that is simultaneously sardonic and deeply serious, wielding Burgess's legendary linguistic virtuosity to illuminate how ideology and faith can be corrupted by human ambition. Widely regarded as one of the great English novels of the twentieth century, it argues that the capacity for both transcendent goodness and monstrous evil resides within the same human institutions — and the same human hearts. Rich with historical cameos, moral complexity, and dark wit, Earthly Powers stands as a monumental achievement in scope, intelligence, and storytelling craft.