Earthly Powers – Anthony Burgess Express Levering

“In Earthly Powers Burgess created his masterpiece. At its center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power–Kenneth Toomey, eminent novelist, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into honored, bitter, luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety; and Don Carlo Campanati, a man of God, eventually beloved Pope, who rises through the Vatican as a shrewd manipulator to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood. Through the lives …