Any Old Iron (novel)
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| Author | Anthony Burgess |
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| Publisher | Hutchinson |
Publication date | 1989 |
| ISBN | 0091738423 |
Any Old Iron, Anthony Burgess's epic updating of the Excalibur legend, was published in 1989.[1]
Among the historical figures fictionalised in the novel are Chaim Weizmann, A. J. Cronin, Winston Churchill, Éamon de Valera, Anthony Eden and Joseph Stalin.
The novel is arguably[citation needed] one of the most important of Burgess's late period.
The action centres on the progress of a Welsh-Jewish family through the tumultuous first half of the 20th century and culminates in the birth of Israel.[2]
References
- ^ Campbell, Peter (18 May 1989). "Fictbites". London Review of Books. 11 (10): 16–17. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
- ^ Fromberg Schaeffer, Susan (26 February 1989). "Beware of Justice, Truth & Beauty". The New York Times: Section 7, Page 12. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
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