The Wanting Seed (Paperback)

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.

"Wildly and fantastically funny. . . . Here too is all the usual rich exuberance of Mr. Burgesss vocabulary, his love of quotations and literary allusions. . . . A remarkable and brilliantly imagined novel, vital and inventive."—Times Literary Supplement [London]

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2001
First published:	December 1996
Authors:	Anthony Burgess
Dimensions:	202 x 137 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	285
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-31508-0
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-393-31508-8
Barcode:	9780393315080

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