A Clockwork Orange
Author(s): Anthony Burgess
'What we were after was lashings of ultraviolence'. In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost? Social prophecy? Black comedy? Study of freewill? "A Clockwork Orange" is all of these. It is also a dazzling experiment in language, as Burgess creates a new language - 'nadsat', the teenage slang of a not-too-distant future.
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A gruesomely witty cautionary tale Time Every generation should discover this book Time Out Not only about man's violent nature and his capacity to choose between good and evil. It is about the excitements and intoxicating effects of language Daily Telegraph I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language...a very funny book -- William S. Burroughs One of the cleverest and most original writers of his generation The Times
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- : Penguin UK
- : Penguin (General UK)
- : 0.08
- : 01 May 2011
- : books
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- : Anthony Burgess
- : Anthony Burgess
- : Paperback
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- : English
- : 823.914
