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A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess

A Clockwork Orange By Anthony Burgess

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess


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Summary

One of Esquire's 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time
A brilliant novel.... [A] savage satire on the distortions of the single and collective minds.-New York Times

A Clockwork Orange Summary

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends' intense reaction against their society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom. This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition, and Burgess's introduction, A Clockwork Orange Resucked.

A Clockwork Orange Reviews

Looks like a nasty little shocker, but is really that rare thing in English letters: a philosophical novel. -- Time
A Clockwork Orange... is a book that can still be read with steady pleasure, continuous amusement and-at times-incredulous admiration. -- Martin Amis - New York Times Book Review
A terrifying and marvelous book. -- Roald Dahl
A very funny book. -- William S. Burroughs
Told in high-flying, pyrotechnic patois that's since bled into the cultural lexicon, A Clockwork Orange is a postmodern triumph. -- Esquire
A fine farrago of outrageousness.... If you don't take to it all, then I can't resist calling you a starry ptitsa who can't viddy a horrorshow veshch when it's in front of your glazzies. And yarbles to you. -- Kingsley Amis
One of the most groundbreaking and influential novels of all time8#212and one of the best. -- Irvine Welsh
A nasty little shocker. -- Times Literary Supplement
All Mr. Burgess's powers as a comic writer, which are considerable, have gone into the rich language of his inverted Utopia. -- Malcolm Bradbury
Extraordinary technical feat. -- New Statesman

About Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) is the author of many works, including The Wanting Seed, Nothing Like the Sun, and Re Joyce. A Clockwork Orange is one of the 100 best novels of both Time magazine and Modern Library and is on David Bowie's Book List.

Additional information

CIN0393341763VG
9780393341768
0393341763
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Used - Very Good
Paperback
WW Norton & Co
20190604
240
N/A
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