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Anthony Burgess' epic masterpiece traces eighty-one years in the life of a Somerset Maugham-type writer and lapsed Catholic called Kenneth Toomey. A popular, second-rate novelist/playwright, he spends a lifetime unsuccessfully trying to reconcile his homosexuality with his faith. This is also the story of Carlo Campanati, an earthy Italian priest linked with Toomey through family ties. With dazzlingly inventive narrative spanning six decades, Burgess draws in major events and characters of the century while exploring themes ...

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Earthly Powers 2012, Europa Editions, New York

ISBN-13: 9781609450847

Trade paperback

Earthly Powers 2004, Vintage Classics, London

ISBN-13: 9780099468646

Mass-market paperback

Earthly Powers 1997, Penguin Books Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9780140188998

Mass-market paperback

Earthly Powers 1993, Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780786700264

Trade paperback

Earthly Powers 1981, Avon Books

ISBN-13: 9780380569038

Trade paperback

Earthly Powers 1980, Simon & Schuster, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780671414900

Hardcover

Earthly Powers 1980, Hutchinson Radius, London, England

ISBN-13: 9780091439101

Hardcover