Not Quite Nasty
Colin Burrow: Anthony Burgess, 9 February 2006
The Real Life of Anthony Burgess
by Andrew Biswell.
Picador, 434 pp., £20, November 2005,0 330 48170 3 Show More
by Andrew Biswell.
Picador, 434 pp., £20, November 2005,
“... facts about Burgess that are known and that matter to his writing. He was baptised a Catholic as John Burgess Wilson in Manchester in 1917, the offspring of a mother who did something on the stage and a father who did something with pianos and perhaps rather more with cigarettes. After his mother and sister died of the flu in 1918 he was brought up by a ... ”