It's the birthday of novelist and composer Anthony Burgess, in Manchester, England (1917). He's best known for his book A Clockwork Orange (1962), but he also wrote many musical compositions and more than 50 other books, as well.
Burgess said, "I call myself a professional writer in that I must write in order to eat... But primarily I call myself a serious novelist who is attempting to extend the range of subject matter available to fiction, as also a practitioner who is anxious to exploit words as much as a poet does."
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I've been trying to get a copy of the book. Apparently Kubrick equalled it.
Yea ... have you tried out Amazon.com?
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