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On a trip to Leningrad, English antique dealer Paul Hussey finds it more difficult than he expected to sell twenty dozen dresses on the black market. Meanwhile his wife Belinda, who is coming to terms with her latent lesbianism, has disappeared into a Soviet hospital.
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Classical in form, cool, intimate and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Anthony Burgess
- First published
- May 1996
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Simpozium, Heinemann, Acropole
- Editions
- 26
- Language
- Russian, English, French
- ISBN
- 9780393009057
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“'AND what,' asked (loudly because of the music) this patrician parrot of a Tiresias from its wheelchair, skirt or trousers hidden by tartan rugs, 'might be your purpose in going to St Petersburg?'”
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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