Taking up from where I left off last time, some more general fiction or non fiction in some cases.
Case in point, John Berendt’s classic take on Savannah Georgia, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. It has been a long time since I last read this book, but I do recall being quite taken with it at the time. This edition was published by Vintage circa 1994.
Harold Bloom, eminent American man of letters wrote only one novel, which purportedly he has disowned, according to the Wikipedia entry on The Flight to Lucifer, the novel in question. It is a sequel to the David Lindsay novel Voyage To Arcturus.
An oddity – the Mortdecai trilogy by Kyril Bonfiglioli.
I’ve mentioned Gillian Bradshaw previously in relation with her well regarded Arthurian trilogy that featured Sir Gawain. She has written many other novels - historical fiction primarily and The Bear Keeper’s Daughter is one. It is set in Byzantine Constantinople and features the Empress Theodora, wife of Justinian 1.
Anthony Burgess’ novel Earthly Powers opens with surely one of the most provocative opening sentences of any book.
”It was the afternoon of my eighty- first birthday, and I was in bed bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.”
Burgess most famous novel is of course Clockwork Orange of which I do believe I have a copy of somewhere, also a collection of his Enderby novels.
This edition of Earthy Powers was published by Penguin in 1980.
To end this post, some of my collection of A S Byatt in paperback editions. It was in fact The Virgin in the Garden, the first of her Frederica novels, that introduced me to her writing.
The first three Frederica novels in Penguin editions…
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Collections of Short Stories in Vintage editions…
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Coming up: Peter Carey, Edward Carey, Angela Carter among others.
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