Book description
Ingenious, chilling and darkly comic, 1985 combines a devastating
critique of Orwell's 1984 with a terrifying vision of the future. As
memorable as A Clockwork Orange, it is as powerful and unsettling as
anything Burgess has written. First published in 1978, its thoughts and
ideas still hold very true today. Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) was the
author of a Earthly Powers, the Malayan Trilogy, A Clockwork Orange and
many other much-loved novels. He was a truly multifaceted artist,
producing novels, orchestral music, film scripts, criticism, poetry and
translations.
