The Wanting Seed

The Wanting Seed
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 9780393285727
ISBN-13 : 0393285723
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Book Synopsis The Wanting Seed by : Anthony Burgess

Download or read book The Wanting Seed written by Anthony Burgess and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1996-12-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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