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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.



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Wildly and fantastically funny . . . A remarkable and brilliantly imagined novel, vital and inventive * TLS *

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    A Paperback / softback by Anthony Burgess

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 18/05/2023
      ISBN13: 9780241997376, 978-0241997376
      ISBN10: 0241997372

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.



      Trade Review
      Wildly and fantastically funny . . . A remarkable and brilliantly imagined novel, vital and inventive * TLS *

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