When time ran out. What would you do if you only had one year to live? The novelist Anthony Burgess found out when he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor at age 40. Burgess was working as a teacher in Brunei and had already published several novels. But when he got the devastating news and was sent back to England, he had to decide how he would provide for his wife after his death. His answer: Become a full-time writer. During the last year of his life, he wrote five and a half novels, so one story goes. Ultimately he received some good news: His cancer had apparently gone into remission. Instead of dying, he embarked on a lifelong career as a novelist, winning multiple awards and earning great fame for his book A Clockwork Orange, which was turned into a movie by legendary director Stanley Kubrick.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 01:00:17 +0000
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