Earthly Powers (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved AndrewTheLott’s request to change the title of Earthly Powers Monday, September 28 2009.

AndrewTheLott changed the title of Earthly Powers Sunday, September 27 2009.

Timothy Gray approved AndrewTheLott’s request to change the title of Earthly Powers Saturday, September 26 2009.

AndrewTheLott changed the title of Earthly Powers Thursday, September 24 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of Earthly Powers Saturday, August 1 2009.

• Anthony Burgess' epic masterpiece follows the lives of two men who each represent different kinds of earthly power. Kenneth Toomey is an eminent novelist, world-famous homosexual, and a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into honoured, bitter, luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety. Don Carlo Campanati is a man of God, who rises through the Vatican as a subtle negotiator and shrewd manipulator to become the controversial architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood. Through the lives of these two men, related to each other not only by family ties but also by sympathy, genius and a deep common understanding of mankind's frailties, Burgess explores the very essence of power.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Earthly Powers Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Anthony Burgess: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Earthly Powers Friday, July 17 2009.

• 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.