The Wanting Seed
Published on 18. May 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-241-99737-6 (ISBN)
Description
From the acclaimed author of the dystopian classic A Clockwork Orange, The Wanting Seed is an inventive, thought-provoking and darkly absurd novel set in a work rampant with overpopulation.
The Wanting Seed is part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics.
As governments struggle to maintain order in the face of overpopulation and food shortages and homosexuality is glorified in an attempt to further limit family sizes, Tristram Foxe and his wife Beatrice-Joanna find themselves facing dire choices. Their world transforms into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger.
The Wanting Seed is part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics.
As governments struggle to maintain order in the face of overpopulation and food shortages and homosexuality is glorified in an attempt to further limit family sizes, Tristram Foxe and his wife Beatrice-Joanna find themselves facing dire choices. Their world transforms into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger.
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Wildly and fantastically funny . . . A remarkable and brilliantly imagined novel, vital and inventive * TLS *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 181 mm
Width: 114 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
162 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-241-99737-6 (9780241997376)
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Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) is the author of many works, including A Clockwork Orange, The Wanting Seed, Nothing Like the Sun, and Re Joyce.