- television, satire, photographis memory, supermarket
Shirley and Howard are a handsome couple, Howard also has a photographic memory which leads him to success on the "Over and Over" TV quiz show. He increases his prize money by betting on the horses and then sets out with Shirley to sample the best that life can offer - including murder.
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- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Anthony Burgess
- First published
- 1961
- Pages
- 215
- Publisher
- Klett-Cotta im Deutschen Taschenbuch Verlag, Knopf, Tsentpoligraf,M
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- German, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780345031518
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“I WAS Janet Shirley, nee Barnes, and my husband was Howard Shirley, and in this story he was nearly twenty-seven and I was just gone twenty-three.”
John Anthony Burgess Wilson, who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his dystopian satire *A Clockwork Orange* remains his best-known novel. In 1971, it was adapted into a controversial film by Stanley Kubrick, which Burgess said was chiefly responsible for the popularity of the book. Burgess produced numerous other novels, including the Enderby quartet, and Earthly Powers. He wrote librettos and screenplays, including the 1977 television mini-series Jesus of Nazareth. He worked as a literary critic for several publications, including The Observer and The Guardian, and wrote studies of classic writers, n
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