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This dilemma seems to be a preoccupation for Anthony Burgess. A Clockwork Orange, his most famous novel written nearly 20 years ago, involves a furious debate on free will that rages behind the grim plot of a state-financed venture to save the soul of an ultra-violent gangleader. In his latest work, Earthly Powers, Burgess continues this debate through the fictional portrayal of a homosexual author obsessed with the question of human will and its relation to religion. Whereas the earlier book depended on its tersely futuristic narrative and frighteningly gruesome story-line for its remarkable success, the moral...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: God's in His Heaven | 2/24/1981 | See Source »

Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess Italian Folktales, selected and retold by Italo Calvino -Prize Stories of the Seventies: From the O. Henry Awards, selected by William Abrahams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice: Feb. 2, 1981 | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

...Ingrid Bergman: My Story, Bergman & Burgess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Best Sellers: Jan. 26, 1981 | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

FICTION: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera ∙ A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now, edited by Aliki Barnstone and Willis Barnstone ∙ The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, Eudora Welty ∙ Crackers, Roy Blount Jr. ∙ Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess ∙ Italian Folktales, selected and retold by Italo Calvino ∙ The Middle Ground, Margaret Drabble

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice: Jan. 26, 1981 | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess Italian Folktales, selected and retold by Italo Calvino -The Middle Ground, Margaret Drabble NONFICTION: American Dreams, Studs Terkel -The Magazine Maze, Herbert R. Mayes - Naming Names, Victor Navasky -Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan - "Watch Out for the Foreign Guests!" Orville Schell Ways of Escape, Graham Greene Wayward Reporter: The Life of A.J.Liebling, Raymond Sokolov

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice: Jan. 19, 1981 | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

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