Any Old Iron

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Washington Square Press, 1990 - Fiction - 384 pages

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Section 1
3
Section 2
11
Section 3
16
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About the author (1990)

Anthony Burgess was born in 1917 in Manchester, England. He studied language at Xaverian College and Manchester University. He had originally applied for a degree in music, but was unable to pass the entrance exams. Burgess considered himself a composer first, one who later turned to literature. Burgess' first novel, A Vision of Battlements (1964), was based on his experiences serving in the British Army. He is perhaps best known for his novel A Clockwork Orange, which was later made into a movie by Stanley Kubrick. In addition to publishing several works of fiction, Burgess also published literary criticism and a linguistics primer. Some of his other titles include The Pianoplayers, This Man and Music, Enderby, The Kingdom of the Wicked, and Little Wilson and Big God. Burgess was living in Monaco when he died in 1993. Jane Rosenman served as an Executive Editor at Houghton Mifflin, Scribner Publishing, and St. Martin¿s Press. She was also Editorial Director of Washington Square Press. Since 2011, she has worked full-time as an independent editor. During her in-house career, she edited fiction writers such as Andrea Barrett, Elinor Lipman, Howard Norman, and Meg Wolitzer. Jane has also edited in the memoir category. At Scribner she published Alice Sebold¿s Lucky and more recently worked on Mira Bartok¿s National Book Critic Circle Award winning The Memory Palace before its sale to The Free Press.

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