The previous books of this author (Devil of a State - 1962 - The
Right to an Answer - 1961) had valid points of satire, some humor,
and a contemporary view, but here the picture is all out - from a
time in the future to an argot that makes such demands on the
reader that no one could care less after the first two pages. If
anyone gest beyond that - this is the first person story of Alex, a
teen-age hoodlum, who, in step with his times, viddies himself and
the world around him without a care for law, decency, honesty;
whose autobiographical language has droogies to follow his orders,
wallow in his hate and murder moods, accents the vonof human hole
products. Betrayed by his dictatorial demands by a policing of his
violence, he is committed when an old lady dies after an attack; he
kills again in prison; he submits to a new method that will destroy
his criminal impulses; blameless, he is returned to a world that
visits immediate retribution on him; he is, when an accidental
propulsion to death does not destroy him, foisted upon society once
more in his original state of sin. What happens to Alex is terrible
but it is worse for the reader. (Kirkus Reviews)
In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder - for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him - but how and at what cost?
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