Earthly Powers
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Earthly Powers
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Earthly Powers is a panoramic saga novel of the 20th century by Anthony Burgess first published in 1980. It begins with the "outrageously provocative" first sentence: "It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me." On one level it is a parody of a "blockbuster" novel, with the 81-year-old hero, Kenneth Toomey, telling the story of his life in 82 chapters. It "summed up the literary, social and moral
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1980 book by Anthony Burgess
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