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Earthly Powers
''Earthly Powers'' is a panoramic saga of the 20th century by Anthony Burgess first published in 1980. It begins with the "outrageously provocative"〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=An arresting opening )〕 first sentence: "It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me."
On one level it is a parody of a "blockbuster" novel, with the 81-year-old hero, Kenneth Toomey (allegedly loosely based on British author W. Somerset Maugham), telling the story of his life in 82 chapters. It "summed up the literary, social and moral history of the century with comic richness as well as encyclopedic knowingness", according to Malcolm Bradbury. In an October 2006 poll in ''The Observer'', it was named joint third for the best work of British and Commonwealth fiction of the last 25 years (along with Ian McEwan's ''Atonement'', Penelope Fitzgerald's ''The Blue Flower'', Kazuo Ishiguro's ''The Unconsoled'', and Salman Rushdie's ''Midnight's Children'').〔Robert McCrum, (What's the best novel in the past 25 years? ), ''Guardian'', 8 October 2006. Retrieved 18 March 2012.〕
==Plot summary==
On his eighty-first birthday, retired gay writer Kenneth Toomey is asked by the Archbishop of Malta to assist in the process of canonisation of Carlo Campanati, the late Pope Gregory XVII and his brother-in-law. Toomey subsequently works on his memoirs, which span the major part of the 20th century.
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