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...CABARET, death a blast, and apocalypse in Burgess' twenty-sixth novel or "entertainment," as he labels it. Not only is this "very deep" book a "bargain," it will "slip down as easily as a dozen oysters well-sharpened with lemon juice and tobacco," as the author declares in the jacket blurb. The book is really three stories in one. All concern the end of human history adapted for the modern TV viewer. At times The End of the World News is all that its author promises: at times it is merely quirky. But whatever its flaws, this...
...READ on the jacket sleeve that this book is a "pioneering attempt to present the full spectrum of contemporary American composition." And to achieve this Promethean goal New York Times music critic John Rockwell leads us through the biographies of 20 American "composers"--classical, jazz, experimental, multimedia, environmental, Broadway, rock and musique concrete...
Although Short actively pursued politics, he also distinguished himself with a fabulous sense of humor. Often donning a black leather jacket and black cap, he formed the "X" group at Harvard, which parodied the volatile politics...
...stop running in a couple of blocks, and quickly take off my black leather jacket and wipe the sweat off my face and make like a pedestrian. I can't see anything and stop some people on the street to ask what street I'm on and which way to the nearest telephone. They point west...
Burgess describes this fiction as an "entertainment" rather than a novel. In a dust-jacket blurb he announces that the discovery of the unconscious, the possibility of universal socialism and man's ability to live in outer space are the century's "three greatest events." The End of the World News (the BBC news readers' sign-off phrase) amplifies those themes with a twist, and it is a twist of the dial. Reading, says the author, must reflect the new way of viewing television in the "three-screen family." Therefore his postliterary trilogy is broken into prime...