Any Old Iron by Anthony Burgess (1ed/1pr)

There is no other writer like him,’ says Gore Vidal of Anthony Burgess, and there is no other novel like ANY OLD IRON - his first major novel since the publication of EARTHLY POWERS in 1980. Wildly original, in the celebrated Burgess tradition, ANY OLD IRON is a broad, ntultilayered historical portrait of our cataclysmic century from the sinking of the Titanic through the Russian Revolution and the two world wars to the creation of the state of Israel. Throughout these chaotic times, the destinies of two very different families, one Welsh, one Jewish, are bound together by an unusual marriage, an unrequited love, and a strange but solid friendship. ANY OLD IRON is a story of survival in the unfittest of worlds. But beneath this story lies another: the vivid revival of an ancient Celtic legend (the title is a clue) richly woven into the intricate fabric of modern times, which provides a haunting mythic dimension to this brilliantly innovative and, at times, highly comic novel.

Hardcover first edition first printing in excellent condition