The Wanting Seed
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Wanting Seed
By (Author) Anthony Burgess
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Books Ltd
15th August 2023
18th May 2023
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
Science fiction: apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic
Classic fiction: general and literary
Narrative theme: Politics
Narrative theme: Social issues
823.914
Physical Properties
Paperback
288
Width 111mm, Height 180mm, Spine 17mm
161g
Description
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.
Reviews
Wildly and fantastically funny . . . A remarkable and brilliantly imagined novel, vital and inventive * TLS *
Author Bio
Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) is the author of many works, including A Clockwork Orange, The Wanting Seed, Nothing Like the Sun, and Re Joyce.
