Those Barren Leaves Duckworth ' Anthony Burgess

' Anthony Burgess

Jack Randall has never had much luck

'A love letter to stories - and to everyone silenced or forgotten in their retelling

and begins to write her memoirs

glowing beaming thing was Mr Pickwick

Those Barren Leaves Duckworth ' Anthony BurgessIn a renovated Italian palace set above the blue of the sea, the Junoesque figure of Mrs Aldwinkle moves among her guests. These include a poet who earns his living editing The Rabbit Fancier's Gazette; a popular novelist who records every detail of her affair with another guest as future literary material; an aging philosopher who pursues a wealthy yet mentally disabled heiress and a pair of na ve and charming young lovers. Deliciously satirical,