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The wanting seed

Author: Anthony Burgess
Publisher: New York : Norton, 1996, ©1962.
Series: Norton paperback fiction
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Science fiction.
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Anthony Burgess
ISBN: 0393315088 9780393315080
OCLC Number: 36172184
Notes: First published as a Norton paperback, 1976; reissued 1996.
Description: 285 p. ; 21 cm.
Series Title: Norton paperback fiction
Responsibility: Anthony Burgess.

Abstract:

"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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