M/F - Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess, Georges Belmont
Category: General Fiction
Tags: General Fiction, Adults
The situation as far as Im concerned, says the young narrator-hero of M/F, is an interesting one. In two days in a strange country Ive acquired a mother in the form of a Welsh-speaking Bird Queen who scares me. Ive spent some hours in prison, Ive discovered the works of an unknown superlative artist in a garden shed and Ive been shot at by a riddling lion-faced expert on Bishop Berkeley. Most interesting of all Im due tonight to be married by a circus clown to my own sister., Almost 21, a college throw-out, Miles Faber embarks on a defiant pilgrimage across the Caribbean. His destination: the shrine of Sib Legeru, Castitian poet and painter. In the streets of Castitas capital, gay with a religious festival, a series of bizarre revelations awaits him - his own double (the foul-mouthed son of a circus sorceress) and a plump sister he had never met before. Unspeakable crimes of blood and lust are perpetrated against both before Miles, solving the final riddle, wakes - like Oedipus - to fi
