Roger Lewis. Anthony Burgess: A Biography.(Book Review)

From: World Literature Today | Date: May 1, 2005| Author: Hutchings, William | Copyright information

Roger Lewis. Anthony Burgess: A Biography. New York. St. Martin's. 2004. xl + 438 pages + 8 plates. $27.95. ISBN 0-312-32251-8

ROGER LEWIS'S BIOGRAPHY chronicles Anthony Burgess's life as it details disillusionment and lost esteem: namely, Lewis's for Burgess himself. Like the plaintiff in a nasty, acrimonious divorce, Lewis writes of "Burgess as he seemed to me then [as an Oxford graduate student, mid-1980s, and] as he seems to me now: it's a double story. How I was th...

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