The Wanting Seed
β Scribed by Anthony Burgess
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 148 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0393285723
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β¦ Synopsis
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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