You've Had Your Time - Being The Second Part Of The Confessions Of Anthony Burgess by Anthony Burgess

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This is the second part of Anthony Burgess's confessions, the first volume of which was entitled "Little Wilson and Big God". The narrative begins in 1959, with the author's return to England from Brunei and, after the explosion of a prognosis which gave him a year to live, the start of a professional writing career which is still in gaudy flower. It ends, somewhat arbitrarily, in 1983 with the centenary celebrations of James Joyce's birth, which prompt certain conclusions about the relationship between literature and life. The life depicted here is that of a man desperate to earn a living through writing. The writing comprises all the media, including film, and the reader will learn about cinematic enterprises that succeeded and failed, novels the critics snarled at, journalism that scandalised the morally scrupulous. This 1991 Penguin Books Canada, Limited Paperback is in fair condition. Tanned, foxed. ISBN: 9780140158830 SKU: 1580450 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book. Show more