Word: liana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stage for this performance is the Rome apartment where Burgess lives with his second wife Liana and their nine-year-old son Andrea, surrounded with the tools of his many trades -books, typewriters, recording equipment, even an electronic organ. The confidence, vitality and theatricality are typical. All his readers are familiar by now with the story of how he got his start as a novelist when doctors declared that he had only a year to live and he began writing like a man possessed, determined to build up an estate for his future widow...
...search of a father figure, he says. Parents are#151;well-parental. (One frantic couple from Detroit beseeched Burgess to convince their son that he must relinquish his dream of becoming a poet and join the family business.) Burgess and his new young wife, a linguist named Liana, sublet sight unseen a tiny faculty apartment from a large Chinese family, which left them a vast quantity of chopsticks but no flatware-and little place to write...