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A clockwork orange

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Anthony Burgess

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'What we were after ... was lashings of ultra-violence.'In Anthony Burgess' infamous nightmare vision of youth culture 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?Burgess writes of social prophecy and free will in this black comedy.

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Released: 1998,
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Title: A clockwork orange
Language: English
Authors: Anthony Burgess
Publisher: Penguin Books
Released: 1998
ISBN10: 014027409x
ISBN13: 9780140274097
Tags: Fiction, Sci-fi and Fantasy, Classics, Science Fiction, Horror, Murders, Dystopia, England, Adapted for Film, Society, English Literature, Great Britain, Coming Of Age, London, Young People, Dark, Violence, Drugs, Future, Prison, Rape, Manipulation, Experiments (Science), Utopia, Punk, Gangs, Subcultures, Brainwashing, Social Pathology and Deviance, Rioting
First published: 1962
Original title: A Clockwork Orange
Rating: 4.3 out of 5
Description: 'What we were after ... was lashings of ultra-violence.'In Anthony Burgess' infamous nightmare vision of youth culture 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?Burgess writes of social prophecy and free will in this black comedy.