The Clockwork Testament or Enderby's End by Anthony Burgess [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING] 1976 • Bantam

The Clockwork Testament or Enderby's End by Anthony Burgess  FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING [1976] BANTAM BOOKS 1st Bantam printing with rare NSFW cover.  Nice, tight unread copy with some shelf wear and a few small stains to cover. Enderby is a dyspeptic British poet, 56 years old, and The Clockwork Testament is an account of his last day alive. The day in question is a cold one in February. He spends it in New York City, where for the past several months he's been working as a visiting professor of English literature. Enderby's present situation arose from a chance encounter with an American film producer in Tangiers, where he owns a bar. Publican Enderby served the man a Scotch and pitched him an idea for a new film.  The producer, intrigued, asked for a script, which Enderby duly composed. The eventual film bears little resemblance to this script or to Hopkins's poem; however, his name is prominently credited, and the film, and Enderby, are now famous. Quirky Enderby, under attack in