Byrne
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Completed shortly before Burgess's death, this novel in verse is extravagantly original
Michael Byrne is an Irish Don Juan - a composer, a charmer, a bigamist and a thug. He moves from country to country, from bed to bed, selling his talents and leaving a trail of children in his wake. His journey takes him from post-Great War London to the centre of Hitler's Third Reich and then he vanishes. His twin sons travel across the troubled face of Europe to pursue their father for one final apocalyptic reckoning.
Author: Anthony Burgess
Format: Paperback, 176 pages, 129mm x 198mm, 127 g
Published: 2012, Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
Description
Completed shortly before Burgess's death, this novel in verse is extravagantly original
Michael Byrne is an Irish Don Juan - a composer, a charmer, a bigamist and a thug. He moves from country to country, from bed to bed, selling his talents and leaving a trail of children in his wake. His journey takes him from post-Great War London to the centre of Hitler's Third Reich and then he vanishes. His twin sons travel across the troubled face of Europe to pursue their father for one final apocalyptic reckoning.
Byrne