Anthony Burgess and America

Anthony Burgess and America is a biographical and critical analysis of Burgesss commentary on and relationship with the United States of America. Utilising Burgesss entire canon and newly discovered materials to assess Burgesss views on America, this book also evaluates the American inspirations in five Burgess novels. This essential addition to Burgess scholarship tells the story of a nearly unexplored area of Burgesss life. For the first time ever, Burgesss American experiences, work, and documented communication, lectures, interviews and public utterances are brought together to assess where these commentaries overlapped with his fiction. The result is a complex personal and public history about one of Britains greatest twentieth century authors and their immersion into and interaction with American culture in the second half of the twentieth century. -- .