Author : Anthony Burgess
Release : 2012
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 847/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Earthly Powers by : Anthony Burgess
Download or read book Earthly Powers written by Anthony Burgess. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the book's center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power: Kenneth Toomey, eminent novelist, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into, bitter, luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety, and Don Carlo Campanati, a man of God, eventually beloved Pope, who rises through the Vatican as a shrewd manipulator to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood.