The Wanting Seed
Anthony Burgess · 1962
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About the book
"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. "
First sentence: THIS was the day before the night when the knives of official disappointment struck.
Book details
- Year
- 1962
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Editions
- 11
- Pages
- 223
- ISBN
- 9780345020116
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