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'He did us all an honour by electing to use, and transform, our language' Anthony Burgess

'Look at the harlequins ... Play! Invent the world! Invent reality'.

This is the childhood advice given by an aunt to Russian born writer Vadim Vadimovich, who emigrates to England, then Paris, then Germany and then the US, and, now dying, reconstructs his past. He remembers Iris his first wife, Annette his long-necked typist and Bel his daughter, as well as his own bizarre 'numerical nimbus syndrome'.

Look at the Harlequins!

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'He did us all an honour by electing to use, and transform, our language' Anthony Burgess'Look at the harlequins ...... Read more

    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 27/06/1991
    ISBN13: 9780141198033, 978-0141198033
    ISBN10: 0141198036

    Number of Pages: 224

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    'He did us all an honour by electing to use, and transform, our language' Anthony Burgess

    'Look at the harlequins ... Play! Invent the world! Invent reality'.

    This is the childhood advice given by an aunt to Russian born writer Vadim Vadimovich, who emigrates to England, then Paris, then Germany and then the US, and, now dying, reconstructs his past. He remembers Iris his first wife, Annette his long-necked typist and Bel his daughter, as well as his own bizarre 'numerical nimbus syndrome'.

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