M/F Mp3 cd - 2016
by Anthony Burgess; Read by Jack Hawkins
From the publisher
"The situation as far as I'm concerned," says the young narrator-hero of M/F, "is an interesting one. In two days in a strange country I've acquired a mother in the form of a Welsh-speaking Bird Queen who scares me. I've spent some hours in prison, I've discovered the works of an unknown superlative artist in a garden shed and I've been shot at by a riddling lion-faced expert on Bishop Berkeley. Most interesting of all I'm due tonight to be married by a circus clown to my own sister."
Almost 21, a college throw-out, Miles Faber embarks on a defiant pilgrimage across the Caribbean. His destination: the shrine of Sib Legeru, Castitian poet and painter. In the streets of Castita's capital, gay with a religious festival, a series of bizarre revelations awaits him--his own double (the foul-mouthed son of a circus sorceress) and a plump sister he had never met before. Unspeakable crimes of blood and lust are perpetrated against both before Miles, solving the final riddle, wakes--like Oedipus--to find himself a willing victim of the machinations of dynastic destiny. M/F is an outrageous entertainment, full of humour and invention.
Anthony Burgess (25th February 1917-22nd November 1993) was one of the UK's leading academics and most respected literary figures. A prolific author, during his writing career Burgess found success as a novelist, critic, composer, playwright, screenwriter, travel writer, essayist, poet and librettist, as well as working as a translator, broadcaster, linguist, and educationalist. His fiction includes Nothing Like the Sun, a recreation of Shakespeare's love-life, but he is perhaps most famous for the complex and controversial novel A Clockwork Orange, exploring the nature of evil. Born in Manchester, he spent time living in Southeast Asia, the USA, and Mediterranean Europe, as well as in England, until his death in 1993.
Details
- Title M/F
- Author Anthony Burgess; Read by Jack Hawkins
- Binding MP3 CD
- Edition MP3 UNA
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Audible Studios on Brilliance
- Date 2016
- ISBN 9781511319225 / 1511319224
- Weight 0.15 lbs (0.07 kg)
- Dimensions 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5 in (17.02 x 13.46 x 1.27 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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