The Washington Post, March 1st, 1987
LITTLE WILSON AND BIG GOD By Anthony Burgess Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 460 pp. $22.50 ANTHONY BURGESS the novelist, who was born John Burgess Wilson in Manchester nearly 70 years ago, has written the first half of his autobiography under the title Little Wilson and Big God. The phrase dates from a period of adolescence when he was having theological difficulties, but as the title of an autobiography it's a bit misleading. There's a great deal less about Big God in the book than about Little Wilson. This is all to the good; Burgess doesn't seem to have known Big God very well, or to have had much ...
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