Any Old Iron (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Anthony Burgess
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Authors or writers, Restaurants, bars, taverns, or pubs, Jews or Jewish life, Nationalism, Cookery or cooks, Intermarriage, Jews and Gentiles, Russia or Russian people, Wales or Welsh people
- Locales: France, New York, Spain, England, Israel, Russia, Wales, Gibraltar
Anthony Burgess is a writer who has managed to be not only prolific, popular, and consistently entertaining, but inventive and disturbing as well. ANY OLD IRON, his thirtieth novel, begins slowly, even (it seems) aimlessly, with an account of the sword Excalibur about which not even the narrator, “a retired terrorist,” professes any real interest. He, like the author, seems less concerned with the relic’s pseudo-history (to which the novel appreciably adds) than he is with the “peripheral roles” played by a cast of characters who exist at the very margins of modern history:...
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