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Set in the near future, The Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce.

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"Wildly and fantastically funny. . . . Here too is all the usual rich exuberance of Mr. Burgesss vocabulary, his love of quotations and literary allusions. . . . A remarkable and brilliantly imagined novel, vital and inventive." -- Times Literary Supplement [London]

The Wanting Seed

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      Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/17/1996 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780393315080, 978-0393315080
      ISBN10: 0393315088

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Set in the near future, The Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce.

      Trade Review
      "Wildly and fantastically funny. . . . Here too is all the usual rich exuberance of Mr. Burgesss vocabulary, his love of quotations and literary allusions. . . . A remarkable and brilliantly imagined novel, vital and inventive." -- Times Literary Supplement [London]

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