Honey for the Bears

Honey for the Bears

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

Plot summary

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.


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