A Clockwork Orange. Anthony Burgess (Hardback)

 A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess.

"There were the golosses of millicents telling them to shut it and you could slooshy the zvook of like somebody being tolchocked real horrorshow and going owwwwwwww and it was like the goloss of a drunken starry psitsa not a man"

It's the near future. In an unnamed city (London? Berlin? Prague?) Alex and his teenage droogs are on the prowl, spending their evenings looking for ultra-violence, rape, even murder. There's a price to be paid, though, when Alex is jailed and subjected to the chilling Ludovico Technique that will turn him into a good citizen. But is it morally right to deprive someone of his capicity for evil?

Told with breathtaking economy, written in the bravura Anglo-Russian slang called NADSAT, Anthony Burgess' study of violence and human choice is as fresh and relevant today as when it first appeared in 1962.

 

This hardback was published by Paperview UK Ltd for THE INDEPENDENT who issued it a book 1 (of a 25 book series) called BANNED BOOKS