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,
“... and loathing, which is chiefly a warped form of embarrassment about one’s former admiration. Andrew Biswell’s new biography, which generously allows Burgess’s friends and enemies to speak in their own voices, flushes out the worst aspects of Lewis. It presents Burgess’s life with a sobriety and care that are at once admirable and slightly ... ”
