Earthly Powers
Anthony Burgess
This novel traces 81 years in the life of a homosexual writer and lapsed Catholic called Frank Toomey, who spends a lifetime unsuccessfully trying to reconcile his sexual urges with his faith.
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Posted by Rokkitnite (1 year ago ) Earthly Powers reads like a literary Forrest Gump. Playwright Kenneth Toomey barrels through the twentieth-century encountering the famous, infamous and non-famous while struggling with the gap between being literary and being popular. Though the characters speak in the usual didactic Burgess style, the novel is very funny, very sad, and thus very human. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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