{"product_id":"real-life-of-anthony-burgess","title":"Real Life of Anthony Burgess","description":"\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE PORTICO PRIZE 2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Anthony Burgess has always attracted acclaim and notoriety in roughly equal measure. He is admired for his literary novels, but known to a wider audience as the author of the ultra-violent shocker, \u003ci\u003eA Clockwork Orange\u003c\/i\u003e. Burgess was a brilliant polymath, a composer, and a man for whom chaos and creativity, fact and fiction, existed in a complex and unique balance. Drawing on his fraught relationships with publishers, friends and his first wife, as expressed in interviews, unpublished writings, letters and diaries, \u003ci\u003eThe Real Life of Anthony Burgess\u003c\/i\u003e reveals both the professional writer and the private man as he has never been seen before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e '\u003ci\u003eThe Real Life of Anthony Burgess\u003c\/i\u003e is the biography all Burgess fans have been waiting for and which the great man himself richly deserves: revelatory, scrupulous, sincere and fascinating' William Boyd, Books of the Year \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Biswell's absorbing new life . . . is a work of scholarship, understanding and sympathetic portraiture' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'He has shed great light on a writer, his personality and his work. This is a biography of the highest class' \u003ci\u003eHerald \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'As the first Burgess biography of any consequence it is long overdue' \u003ci\u003e Sunday Telegraph \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Real Life of Anthony Burgess\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the inaugural Glen Dimplex New Writers' Award.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54224775283032,"sku":"9780330481717","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780330481717.jpg?v=1777090559","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/real-life-of-anthony-burgess","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}