M/F
By (Author) Anthony Burgess
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Classics
2nd December 2004
30th September 2004
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
208
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 12mm
157g
Kicked out of college and harassed by his lawyer, Miles Faber abandons New York and embarks on a defiant pilgrimage across the Caribbean to find the shrine of Sib Legeru, an obscure poet and painter. But in the streets of Castita's capital, where a wild religious festival is in full swing, a series of bizarre encounters - including his own repulsive doppelganger (the son of a circus bird-woman) - and disturbing family revelations await Miles, who soon finds himself a willing victim of dynastic destiny. A darkly surreal comedy of dazzling linguistic inventiveness, MF is an outrageous tale of blood, lust and the machinations of fate.
Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917. His other works include A Clockwork Orange (also available as a Penguin Modern Classic), Inside Mr Enderby, Enderby Outside, Tremor of Intent, Nothing Like the Sun and Man of Nazareth. He died in 1993.