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A clockwork orange Anthony Burgess.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Penguin 2011, c1962.Description: 1 v. ; 19 cmISBN:
  • 9780241951446 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • F
Summary: What we were after was lashings of ultraviolence'. In this nightmare vision of youth 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? Social prophecy? Black comedy? Study of freewill? A Clockwork Orange is all of these. It is also a dazzling experiment in language, as Burgess creates a new language - 'nadsat', the teenage slang of a not-too-distant future.
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Fiction Fiction Waimate Event Centre - Long term storage Fiction BURG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan Not for loan A00598042

Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1962.

What we were after was lashings of ultraviolence'. In this nightmare vision of youth 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? Social prophecy? Black comedy? Study of freewill? A Clockwork Orange is all of these. It is also a dazzling experiment in language, as Burgess creates a new language - 'nadsat', the teenage slang of a not-too-distant future.

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