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A Clockwork Orange

Format:	Paperback 160 pages

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'What we were after ...was lashings of ultra-violence'. In Anthony Burgess' infamous nightmare vision of youth culture 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? Burgess writes of social prophecy and free will in this black comedy.

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Published
03/09/1998

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd

ISBN
9780140274097

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I grew up in a fairly rough area of Fife at a time when teenage boys joined gangs and roamed the streets. The literary diet consisted of books with titles like Skinhead and Suedehead and than A Clockwork Orange came along. I was only 13 or so, so I couldn't get into a cinema. Instead, I resorted to the novel - and what a novel it is, still fresh and inventive after all these years, and with its warning cry to society still absolutely valid. It made me realize that literature could tackle anything. (Kirkus UK)