The Wanting Seed

Informationen zum Autor Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) is the author of many works, including A Clockwork Orange , The Wanting Seed , Nothing Like the Sun , and Re Joyce . Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Burgess, Burgess Anthony
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.05.2023
• EAN: 9780241997376
• ISBN: 978-0-241-99737-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 180 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Penguin Essentials
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Science Fiction / General, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Politics, Science fiction: apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary