Anthony Burgess
The Wanting Seed
Set in the near future, The Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce.
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. It is a novel both extravagantly funny and grimly serious.
"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]
W. W. Norton publishes several of Anthony Burgess's works, including
A Clockwork Orange,
The Doctor is Sick,
Honey for the Bears,
The Long Day Wanes,
Nothing Like the Sun, The Wanting Seed, and
Re Joyce.
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