Description:The only American edition of the cult classic novel.A vicious fifteen-year-old "droog" is the central character of this 1963 classic, whose stark terror was captured in Stanley Kubrick's magnificent film of the same title. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where criminals take over after dark, the
The only American edition of the cult classic novel.
A vicious fifteen-year-old "droog" is the central character of this 1963 classic, whose stark terror was captured in Stanley Kubrick's magnificent film of the same title. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. When the state undertakes to reform Alex—to "redeem" him—the novel asks, "At what cost?" This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition and Burgess's introduction "A Clockwork Orange Resucked."... (more)(less)
Manufacturer : W. W. Norton & Company Release date : 1 November 1986 ISBN-10 : 0393312836 |
ISBN-13: 9780393312836
"Genre: Classic Literature/Dystopia
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Fifteen year old Alex and his thrill seeking gang regularly indulge in ultraviolence, rape and drugs, but when he is caught and brainwashed by a government psychologist Alex finds his law abiding life unbearable."
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