A shorter "Finnegans wake".
By: Edited by Anthony Burgess.
Contributors: Burgess, Anthony, 1917-
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 1966
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Other titles: Finnegans wake.
Description: This novel is about an innkeeper who lives with his family, cleaning-woman and barman just outside Dublin. It is written in a strange-looking language, but this sort of language is entirely appropriate for a dream, and dream is what our hero does, from the first page to the last. What does he dream about? The whole history of man, which is a perpetual cycle of falling and rising again. The Earwicker family is drawn into the rather unhandy and amateurish acting of this great human epic...