A brilliantly funny spy novel from the author of A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess.
Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) was a novelist, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. He is best known for his novel A Clockwork Orange, but altogether he wrote thirty-three novels, twenty-five works of non-fiction, two volumes of autobiography, three symphonies, more than 150 other musical works, reams of journalism and much more. He was born in Manchester, England and grew up in Harpurhey and Moss Side, went to school in Rusholme, and studied at Manchester University. He lived in Malaya, Malta, Monaco, Italy and the US amongst other places, and is still widely read all over the world.
Tremor of Intent has more wit and comic invention than the books
which it so boisterously ridicules ... The talent is as unsettling
as it is prodigious
*New Republic*
A gleaming novel of ideas ... brazenly clever. He is possessed by a
black sense of humor ... Burgess is nothing if not outrageous
*New York Times Book Review*
One of the cleverest and most original writers of his
generation
*The Times*
Anthony Burgess has always been a huge favorite of mine, his
writing is rich and tempting, like dessert. And Tremor of Intent is
one of my favorite Burgess books. I think he set out to write a
satire of a spy novel but he made the story, the writing, the
characters, so good that it became an amusing spy
novel. And some of the passages (the eating contest on a cruise
ship) are among the best you'll ever read
*Alan Furst, author of The Spies of Warsaw*
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