ISBN: PB: 9781784103927

Carcanet

May 2018

256 pp.

21,6x13,5 cm

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Ink Trade

Selected Journalism 1963-1993

Despite his disingenuous claims, Anthony Burgess was an enormously prolific journalist. During his life he published two substantial collections of journalism, "Urgent Copy" (1968) and "Homage to Qwert Yuiop" (1986); a posthumous collection of occasional essays, "One Man's Chorus", was published in 1998. These collections are now out of print, and Burgess's journalism, a key element of his oeuvre, and an example to a declining modern reviewer, has fallen into neglect.

"The Ink Trade" is a brilliant new selection of his reviews and articles, some savage, some crucial in establishing new writers, new tastes and trends. Between 1959 and his death in 1993 Burgess contributed to newspapers and periodicals around the world, among them the Observer, the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Times, Playboy, and Le Monde. He was provocative, informative, entertaining, extravagant, and always readable.

About the author

Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917. He graduated with honours in English Literature from Manchester University in 1940. He served in World War II, then became an education officer in the Far East before beginning to write. 1962 saw the publication of his most famous work "A Clockwork Orange", which made him famous as a satirical novelist, and which was filmed by Stanley Kubrick in the 1970s. Anthony Burgess died in 1993 leaving behind an incredible body of work including poetry, screenplays and orchestral works.