Honey for the Bears

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Honey for the Bears is a 1963 novel by Anthony Burgess.

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Antique dealer Paul Hussey and his US wife Belinda travel to Leningrad for a holiday, but with a view to making a little money on the side by flogging dresses on the Soviet black market. But Belinda has a breakdown and is taken to hospital, leaving Paul to fend for himself.

Finding the USSR quite different from his preconceptions, Hussey has various sexual adventures — with both men and women — and seeks to secure the freedom of a dissident composer.

Works of Anthony Burgess
Novels:	The Malayan Trilogy |Time for a Tiger | The Enemy in the Blanket | Beds in the East | The Right to an Answer | The Doctor is Sick | The Worm and the Ring | Devil of a State | One Hand Clapping | A Clockwork Orange | The Wanting Seed | Honey for the Bears | Inside Mr. Enderby | The Eve of St. Venus | Nothing Like the Sun | A Vision of Battlements | Tremor of Intent | Enderby Outside | M/F | Napoleon Symphony | The Clockwork Testament | Beard's Roman Women | Abba Abba | 1985 | Man of Nazareth | Earthly Powers | The End of the World News | Enderby's Dark Lady | The Kingdom of the Wicked | The Pianoplayers | Any Old Iron | Mozart and the Wolf Gang | A Dead Man in Deptford | Byrne
Short stories:	The Devil's Mode
Critical works:	Shakespeare | Joysprick | Ninety-Nine Novels | A Mouthful of Air
Autobiography:	Little Wilson and Big God | You've Had Your Time
Journalism:	Homage to QWERT YUIOP | One Man's Chorus