Earthly Powers

by Burgess, Anthony; Theroux, Paul

• ISBN13: 9781609450847
• ISBN10: 1609450841
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-12-04
• Publisher: Europa Editions Inc

Summary

In Earthly PowersBurgess created his masterpiece. At its center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power-Kenneth Toomey, a past-his-prime author of mediocre fiction, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into, bitter, luxurious old age, living in self-exile on Malta; and Don Carlo Campanati, a man of God, eventually of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood beloved Pope, who rises through the Vatican as a shrewd manipulator to become the architect. Through the lives of these two modern men Burgess explores the very essence of power in a narrative that spans from Hollywood, to Dublin, Nairobi, Paris, and beyond.