The Wanting Seed

by Anthony Burgess

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393315080
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	12/17/1996
Series:	Norton Paperback Fiction Series
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	318,672
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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.

Editorial Reviews

"Wildly and fantastically funny. . . . Here too is all the usual rich exuberance of Mr. Burgesss vocabulary, his love of quotations and literary allusions. . . . A remarkable and brilliantly imagined novel, vital and inventive."

Times Literary Supplement [London]