Gallery of editions
UK first edition (Hutchison, 1995)
featuring a detail of William Blake’s ‘The Agony in the Garden’
US first edition (Carroll & Graf, 1997)
UK paperback (Vintage, 1996)
US paperback (Carroll & Graf, 1998)
Czech edition, published by Volvox Globator
Byrne is a verse novel that was completed on Ash Wednesday, 1993, and published posthumously. It is Burgess’s final novel.
Matthew Asprey is a writer from Sydney, Australia. His website is here.
Honey For The Bears is the title of a 1963 novel by Anthony Burgess.
The header image is a detail of a portrait of Duke Ellington and his orchestra.
All posts are copyright ©2007-2009 Matthew Asprey.
Email: twelvemilereef@yahoo.com
City of Shadows (2006) by Peter Doyle
Low Life (1991) by Luc Sante
Buried Country (2000) by Clinton Walker
Strawberry Hills Forever (2007) by Vanessa Berry
The Candy Butcher's Farewell (1964) by Lester Goran
Last Evenings on Earth (2006) and The Savage Detectives (1998/2007) by Roberto Bolaño.
Honey For The Bears (1963) by Anthony Burgess
The Collected Stories of Leonard Michaels (2007)
Lady With The Laptop by Clive Sinclair (1996)
Recommended Music
North By Northwest by Bernard Herrmann (Joel McNeely/Slovak National Symphony Orchestra; Varese Sarabande)
El Cid by Miklós Rózsa (Nic Raine/The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus; Tadlow Music) Blog Post
Boy On A Dolphin by Hugo Friedhofer (OST)
Mozart: The Complete Works (170CDs; Brilliant Classics)
Blues For Pablo by the Bernie McGann Quartet (Rufus)
Live At Wangaratta by Ten Part Invention (ABC Jazz)
The Complete Works 1924-1947 by Duke Ellington (Budget German 40 CD Box)
A Tree With Roots (Basement Tapes) by Bob Dylan and the Band
That Lucky Old Sun by Brian Wilson
Friends (Revisited) by The Beach Boys
Wednesday, 14 January 2009 at 10:48 pm |
[...] is usually considered apart from the rest of Burgess’s fiction, but if Byrne can be thrown in with the novels, I don’t see why Moses [...]