Enderby's Dark Lady or No End to Enderby by Anthony Burgess (First Edition)
Anthony Burgess writes that Enderby's Dark Lady was 'composed to placate kind readers of The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End, who objected to my casually killing my hero'.
The latest Enderby novel begins and ends with some surprising episodes in the life of William Shakespeare, subject of one of the dedicated poet's rare ventures into prose literature. In between, Enderby finds himself in Terrebasse, Indiana, taking part in an American musical based on the life of the Bard and falling desperately and hopelessly in love with his leading lady, the astonishingly beautiful black actress, April Elgar.
From one hilarious disaster to the next, Enderby's Dark Lady is Burgess at his most brilliant, combining knockabout comedy, social satire and verbal pyrotechnics in a mixture as rich as an Elizabethan comedy.
Format: Hardback | 159 pages
Dimensions (cm): 22.3 x 14.2 x 1.6 | 312g
Publication Date: 1984
Publisher: Hutchinson Publishing Group
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
Edition Number: 1
ISBN10: 0091560500
ISBN13: 9780091560508
Condition: Acceptable
A vintage ex-library book with obvious wear. Has some damage to the cover, including the insides of the front and back covers which have had some of the top layer of paper peeled off (see pics 2 and 5), but integrity still intact. The dust jacket is included and in good condition (minor scuff marks, and very minor discolouring). There is a small rectangular piece cut out of the bottom of page 3 (see pic 3), and a library stamp on the top-left corner of page 6 (see pic 4). No writing in margins, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no missing pages or anything that would compromise the legibility or understanding of the text.