The Wanting Seed
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...
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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 funny and grimly serious.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393315080 (0393315088)
Publish date: December 17th 1996
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
20th Century,
Speculative Fiction,
Dystopia
Well, it was great to finally read another book by Anthony Burgess. I wish that the themes of this novel didn't hour so true to home in these last few years but I am glad that we have not sunk to such an extreme level as the characters in this novel. Let's hope we never resort to Cannibalism in orde...
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