Earthly Powers

Anthony Burgess. Carroll & Graf Publishers, $15.95 (608pp) ISBN 978-0-7867-0026-4

Burgess's ambitious study of 20th-century history centers on the stormy relationship between an effete, popular novelist and a Faustian priest. (Jan.)

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