Cart
Free US shipping over $10
Proud to be B-Corp

Honey for the Bears Anthony Burgess

Honey for the Bears By Anthony Burgess

Honey for the Bears by Anthony Burgess


$10.00
Condition - Like New
Only 1 left

Summary

There are so few genuinely entertaining novels around that we ought to cheer whenever one turns up. Continuous, fizzing energy...Honey for the Bears is a triumph. -Kingsley Amis, New York Times

Honey for the Bears Summary

Honey for the Bears by Anthony Burgess

A sharply written satire, Honey for the Bears sends an unassuming antiques dealer, Paul Hussey, to Russia to do one final deal on the black market as a favor for a dead friend's wife. Even on the ship's voyage across, the Russian sensibility begins to pervade: lots of secrets and lots of vodka. When his American wife is stricken by a painful rash and he is interrogated at his hotel by Soviet agents who know that he is trying to sell stylish synthetic dresses to the masses starved for fashion, his precarious inner balance is thrown off for good. More drink follows, discoveries of his wife's illicit affair with another woman, and his own submerged sexual feelings come breaking through the surface, bubbling up in Russian champagne and caviar.

Honey for the Bears Reviews

It is a very funny, unbalancing, and contentedly schizoid novel that reduces the cold war to an intimate kind of insanity. -- Newsweek
Honey for the Bears is one of the best-planned and most brilliantly executed books I have seen in a long time. The reader...is in the presence of a virtuoso. -- Saturday Review

About Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) is the author of many works, including The Wanting Seed, Nothing Like the Sun, and Re Joyce. A Clockwork Orange is one of the 100 best novels of both Time magazine and Modern Library and is on David Bowie's Book List.

Additional information

GOR013638530
9780393346381
0393346382
Honey for the Bears by Anthony Burgess
Used - Like New
Paperback
WW Norton & Co
20130827
272
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

Customer Reviews - Honey for the Bears