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TREMOR OF INTENT, by Anthony Burgess. An ordinary spy plot becomes a novel of unusual depth, thanks to Burgess' memorable characterization...
TREMOR OF INTENT, by Anthony Burgess. An ordinary spy plot becomes an unusual novel of depth, thanks to Burgess' memorable characterization...
TREMOR OF INTENT, by Anthony Burgess. The unfailing Burgess wit, craftsmanship and intellectual curiosity combine to bring off a first-rate eschatological spy novel...
TREMOR OF INTENT by Anthony Burgess. 239 pages. Norton...
...Deighton and John le Carre have written such spy stories, and so did the late Ian Fleming. The literary chromosomes of Graham Greene, C. P. Snow and Vladimir Nabokov are also traceable in this deliberate hybrid. But Anthony Burgess is not trying to imitate them. He has never written an unoriginal novel or an unlaminated one. Every Burgess surface conceals another, like Salome's veils, and they must all peel off to expose the author's naked core. In this exceptional book, subtitled An Eschatological Spy Novel, the reader quickly discovers that Burgess has much more...