The Wanting Seed
$23.46
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2023
Summary
An inventive, thought-provoking and absurd dystopian novel set in a world rampant with overpopulation by the author of A Clockwork Orange - now a Penguin Essential.
Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241997376 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241997372 |
| Author: | Anthony Burgess |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2023 |
| Weight: | 161g |
| Dimensions: | 180mm x 111mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Penguin Essentials |
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Wildly and fantastically funny … A remarkable and brilliantly imagined novel, vital and inventive * TLS *
About The Author
Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) is the author of many works, including A Clockwork Orange, The Wanting Seed, Nothing Like the Sun, and Re Joyce.
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